[Avodah] Report: Orthodox Weddings to Resume with "Approved Model" in New Jersey: Rabbi Aaron Kotler

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 02:35:40PM +0100, Chana Luntz via Avodah wrote:
> While I have a niece whose wedding was originally set for just before
> Shavuos (now PG end of August), and can certainly understand the pressures,
> it feels intrinsically wrong, at least to me, to be carefully avoiding
> weddings during sefira due to a plague that occurred nearly two thousand
> years ago, and yet not be prepared to defer such weddings due to our very
> own plague, right here and now.

You remind me of how I felts during the Second Intifadeh on Shabbos
Mevorkhim. Everyone was crying over the people murdered by terrorists
in the latest that week. But we can not ruin Shabbos Mevorkhim by saying
Av haRachamim?!

The broader question is how often hilkhos tefillah can get in the way
of the spiritual expression that should be tefillah itself. Why? And/Or
what should be do about it?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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Micha Berger                 Today is the 25th day, which is
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Author: Widen Your Tent      Netzach sheb'Netzach: When is domination or
- https://amzn.to/2JRxnDF                        taking control too extreme?