<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 5, 2007 9:48 PM, Michael Kopinsky <<a href="mailto:mkopinsky@gmail.com">mkopinsky@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div>Marc Shapiro writes regarding this on Seforim blog:</div>
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<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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" target="_blank">http://seforim.blogspot.com/2007/09/marc-shapiro-what-do-adon-olam-and-mean.html</a>, footnote 8)</p></blockquote>
</div>FWIW I used to be a shul rabbi on Shaabos/Yom Tov and Gabbai of a wekday minyan in Teaneck. During ChhM Sukkos - when the Torah was taken out for hoshanaos - I suggested to close the Aron Kodesh after taking the Torah out. Somebody 2nd guessed me. I said source? He replied Artscroll!
<br><br>So even if rabbis are not getting 2nd guessed, gabba'im ARE<br><br><br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com</a><br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">
http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>