[Avodah] nidche

[Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer via Avodah]

On 5/3/2017 12:30 AM, saul newman via Avodah wrote:
> since these holidays are nidche in any year pesach doesnt start on 
> thurs, does anyone know when this practice developed? was it encoded 
> this way already in the 50's?

It was instituted during the tenure of Rabbis Amar and Metzger.


[Email #2. -micha]

On 5/3/2017 12:48 AM, Ben Waxman via Avodah wrote:
> There is an oversimplification here, that the issue is the secular. 
> Yom Hazikaron/Yom Azmaut are unique in that they are pushed off even 
> if they don't start on Shabbat but even on Motzash...

> I have to add the following: My dream is that people will come to 
> understand how wrong it is to make people (including dati'im) work on 
> Shabbat when Lag B'omer falls on Motzash and will take the appropriate 
> steps.

That's fine. A secular holiday can and should be pushed off. But it is
no longer a religious holiday that can allow someone to say Hallel --
certainly -- with a bracha and push off sefirah minhagim. The Halachically
viable basis for Hallel and simcha during sefirah is only applicable to
5 Iyar.

KT,
YGB