[Avodah] Dancing Around A Bonfire & Concern of Foreign Practices: Rav Wosner’s Responsum

[Zev Sero]

On 02/05/18 04:33, Professor L. Levine via Avodah wrote:
>  From https://goo.gl/W49XHX
> 
> 
> Toras Aba <http://torasaba.blogspot.com> just put up an interesting post 
> discussing a halachic concern regarding dancing around a bonfire, due to 
> similarity with ancient practice of idolators.
> 
> See the above URL for more.

And yet your precious Minhag Ashkenaz was to (have a nochri) make a 
bonfire and dance before it (or around it) on Simchas Torah.

R Wosner was asked about doing so in camp, stam on a Wednesday, not on 
Lag Bo'omer when it is, at least in Meron, Chevron, and a few other 
places in Eretz Yisroel, a long-established minhog practiced by tzadikim 
and chachomim who were much greater than R Wosner or anyone else you can 
cite.  I don't believe it occurred to him that someone might apply this 
teshuvah to those fires, and it's dishonest to do so.

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