[Avodah] Slichos without a minyan before midnight

[Prof. Levine]

At 10:48 AM 9/6/2018, Marty Bluke wrote:
>R' Yitzchak Levine wrote:
>"I personally do not understand where the custom to say the firstÂ
>Slichos at night came from.  My father-in-law, A"H,  told me that inÂ
>Europe selichos were said every day in the early morning starting atÂ
>about 4 am.
>
>The Vo'Sikin  Minyan I daven at will be saying Selichos this SundayÂ
>morning and every morning stating at 5:10 DST which is equivalent toÂ
>4:10 AM EST.  This agrees with the practice that  my father-in-lawÂ
>saw in Europe."
>
>The 5:10AM - 4:10AM is irrelevant. Selichos are 
>supposed to be said b'ashmores haboker, before 
>alos hashachar. Alos Hashachar in Brooklyn now 
>is 5:03 so you are not saying selichos at the optimal time either.

Be this as it may,  I do not believe that one 
will find many shuls in Brooklyn that says 
selichos earlier than 5:10 am, certainly not 
before alos hashachar.   Indeed,  most say 
Slichos later.  Many have minyanim at 10 pm every night.

The yeshivas start even later.  I think that 
Chaim Berlin starts at 7:45 and says very little of the selichos.

YL


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