[Avodah] Sukkah on Shmini Atzeret

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 09:15:42PM +0000, Mandel, R/Dr Seth responded to
R/Dr Meir Shinar:
>> I also wonder about calling the arukh hashulchan, whom Rav henkin Zt"l
>> said was the accepted book of psak in lita, as a fellow traveler..

> As far as the Arukh haShulhan goes, everyone agrees that he was a great
> talmid chacham. However, everyone who knows his book also knows that
> he tries to find justifications for some things that chasidim do that
> are against established halokho...

Not my experience at all. He does work hard to find justifications for
things that people do -- but among Litvaks, not Chassidim. Well, let me
tone that down, he'll try to find justification for what other qehillos
do. BUT, when it comes to bottom line, it's Litta's mimetic tradition,
not the practices of Chassidim.

On the subject of Litvaks who considered the AhS one of their own:
Add the early RMF, who wrote in vol 1 that the AhS was poseiq acharon,
only to switch to saying so of the MB in a later volume. (My guess is
that when R Moshe saw that lemaaseh the MB was being followed over the Ahs
in nearly all quarters, he stopped holding out.) Also, R' Dovid Lifshitz
and R' S Yaakov Weinberg both told their talmidim to turn to the AhS.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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