<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Riceman</b> <<a href="mailto:driceman@att.net">driceman@att.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Marty Bluke wrote:<br>> It is hard to go against all the modern day poskim.<br>><br>><br>When I was young and innocent I was taught that saying selichos in the<br>evening was a "yekkishe minhag", but not "our" (eastern European
<br>Bostonian) minhag. I wonder whether all of these poskim are complaining<br>about someone from elsewhere changing his custom, rather than flat out<br>prohibiting the custom of an ancient and honorable Jewish community.
<br>Notably none of the poskim you cite are German.<br><br>David Riceman<br>_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></div><br>I don't know the issue of whether this is yekkishe. FWIW Breue's says Seilhos on the FIRST day in the early morning NOT at midnight!
<br><br>What DOES make sense to me is that if you removed ALL Qabblistic sources there is AFAIK zero Halachic considerations for not saying Selichos earlier than Midnight.<br><br>And possibly this is what is meant by Yekkishe, Since Yeke's tend to NOT factor Qabblah into their Litrugical considerations in general. [I hve no evidence just a good hunch]
<br><br>Maybe R. Michael Poppers or someone else has more insight on this matter.<br> <br><br>-- <br>Kesiva vaChasima Tova<br>Best Wishes for 5768,<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com</a>
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