<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 25, 2007 5:45 PM, Eli Turkel <<a href="mailto:eliturkel@gmail.com">eliturkel@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;">
> Does anyone have an answer for: If one of the reasons for this minhag<br>> was the danger of getting beaten up outside, then why isn't there a such<br>> minhag for Easter?>><br><br>Having just spent nittel nacht in Madrid it was a nice for revelry
<br>and drunkedness (good to stay at home). From what I read this<br>is not unusual. Easter is more solemn. Hence, I assume that<br>anti-Jewish riots occurred when the peasants got drunk<br><font color="#888888">--<br>Eli Turkel
</font></blockquote></div><br>The 'traditional" day for pogroms etc. was Good Friday when passion plays and self-enegation led the mobs into a frenzy. But what kind of g'zeira can be made for Friday nights? People usually stayed home anyway. Nittel floated and could be any night, etc. so it was not a good time fto go to a Beis Midrash
<br><br>Easter was not a big deal AFAIK. <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/
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