[Avodah] Swaying During Prayer and Torah Study

[Mandel, Seth via Avodah]

From: Professor L. Levine <llevine at stevens.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2016 1:05 PM
> Please see the article at http://tinyurl.com/zxu88bg

WADR to the author, he mixes up several different things. Shockling is
not the same as swaying. Most of the sources refer to swaying, not to
what is called in Yiddish shockling.

He also mentions R. Breuer as if it was only the German Jews who did
not shockle. Everyone knows that RMF and RYBS stood ramrod straight,
and they were not copying German minhogim. R. Aharon Kotler also stood
straight. The minhag of shockling is one of the things specifically
mentioned as a chiddush of the Chasidim.


Rabbi Dr. Seth Mandel