<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Micha Berger</b> <<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</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;">
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:54:26PM -0400, Richard Wolpoe wrote:<br>: Given a cheifetz of Avodah Zoro can be nullified by a goy [bittul]<br>: lI wonder nowadays that since many of these sueprpsitions that USED TO BE AZ<br>
: have the status of being Batel because they have been secularized -<br>: therefore no issur is hal anymore.<br><br>You assume that a lack of preserving their importance is the same as an<br>active bitul. Is that true?</blockquote>
<div><br>I am not positing this as a positive p'sak. I am speculating that MIGHT be the case in order to rationalize a yishuv to the "minhag". <br><br>See Rema about Dancing on Shabbos and YT [Orach Chaim 339]. Sometimes with a rationale you can combine mutav shyihyu shoggegim, etc.
<br><br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">: I would speuclate the same MAY be true for Halloween which has pagan/Xtian
<br>: origins but is has really evolved into a secualr Purim style masquerade for<br>: most people.<br><br>Although still a celebration tied to evil -- death themes, ritualized<br>version of extortion (Trick or Treat). Not quite wholesome either way.
</blockquote><div><br>Ein hachi nami<br>and NFL football is probably too gruesomely violent, too! And NOT in pretend way either.<br></div><br></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">
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