<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 15/10/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Micha Berger</b> <<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</a>> wrote:</span></div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">My problem with saying "we follow ArtScroll" is just that; it means<br>that the rav was being arbitrary (we are stocked with AS siddurim,
<br>so...) rather than following precedent or sevara. Personally, I am<br>more irritated by the lack of sevara, but I accept your<br>generalization.</blockquote>
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<div>Marc Shapiro writes regarding this on Seforim blog:</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Let me conclude with a story of one shul that refused to be run over by Artscroll. The year was 2001 and on Shabbat morning I was davening at the Rydniker Shtiebl on the Upper West Side which was across the street from my apartment. The late Rabbi Orenstein, who had studied in Kamenitz before the war, was the rav. It was one of those Shabboses where there is some confusion as to which Haftorah is read. Rabbi Orenstein told the reader what he should do, and someone called out that Artscroll says that we should read a different haftorah. Dr. David Diamond stood up, banged his hand on the bimah, and very sternly declared: "In this shul we have a rav, and we follow what he tells us to do. Artscroll is not the rav and Artscroll does not tell us which Haftorah to read!" With that he sat down, and never again did anyone dare ask a "
<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">kasha</span>" on the Rav from Artscroll.</blockquote>
<p>(<a href="http://seforim.blogspot.com/2007/09/marc-shapiro-what-do-adon-olam-and-mean.html">http://seforim.blogspot.com/2007/09/marc-shapiro-what-do-adon-olam-and-mean.html</a>, footnote 8)</p>
<div>KT,</div>
<div>Michael</div>
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