On Dec 19, 2007 4:43 PM, Micha Berger <<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sun, December 16, 2007 8:04 am, R Jonathan Baker wrote:<br>: Similarly, Cong. Or Zarua on the Upper East Side (C) bought a building<br>: that had been the original synagogue of Cong. Kehillath Jeshurun (O)<br>: until sometime around 1900, used by other congregations for 50 years,
<br>: then sold as a church in 1951, and then bought again as COZ about<br>: 15-20 years ago. After some years, OZ knocked it down and built a<br>: larger building.<br><br>An intentionally contravercial question, simply because I can't
<br>justify what I would think is the obvious answer:<br><br>Say one holds like RT about shituf for benei Noach.<br><br>How could one rank a center which included institutionalized chilul<br>Shabbos as a better use of the space than worship for benei Noach of a
<br>format permitted to them?<br><br>SheTir'u baTov!<br>-micha<br><br>--<br>Micha </blockquote></div><br>totally tangentially. There was a C shul in Northern Manhattan into wihich No O would set foot to daven, but when it was sold to a Church some of the O's from both YU and Breuer community were upset. I found it hard to understand what was bothering them, they never considered it a Halachically valid shul to begin with?
<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>