[Avodah] Another Chumera ends up Involving a Kula

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 05/21/2015 04:25 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
>
>:> So, if in your shul, people stay late to hear other varations of the
>:> qolos -- Rashi, Brisker, shevarim-ter'uah beneshimah achas or 2 neshimos,
>:> etc... -- they are actually being meiqil as well.

>: No, they're not.  None of these tekios are "bechinam", any more than the
>: last 30 kolos "le`arvev es hasatan", or a katan blowing for practice.

> They aren't to fulfill minhag. Hey, I didn't outright assur the practice,
> I said it relies on being meiqil, such as calling wanting to be chosheish
> for some minority opinion shitah a need to blow.

That's not a kulah, because the issur is davka when it's bechinam, and
so long as there's a reason it's not chinam. Their wish to hear shofar
the way this rishon or that one wanted it heard is at least as good a
reason as our "le`arvev es hasoton", or giving women a "nachas ruach".

[Email #2. -micha]

Follow-up:

However, your chashash brings up an interesting suggestion. if they
are worried about all possible chashshos, then maybe they should worry
about yours too, and they can easily solve it: let them go on mivtzo'im
and find Jews who have not yet heard shofar at all, and blow for them
according to these opinions. That way, not only will they have heard
shofar according to all possible opinions, and not only will they have
the zechus of those Jews having heard shofar according to at least
one opinion (which is certainly kosher, as you correctly point out),
but their "extra" tekios will be with a bracha!

-- 
Zev Sero
zev at sero.name