<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Daniel Eidensohn <<a href="mailto:yadmoshe@012.net.il">yadmoshe@012.net.il</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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Received this from Dr. Josh Backon with permission to forward to Avodah<br>
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Translation: we have seen how the Conservative clergy have made a<br>
mockery out of Judaism by changing text of prayers;<br>
permitting stam yeinam; and dozens of other violations.<br>
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Josh<br>
<a href="mailto:backon@vms.huji.ac.il">backon@vms.huji.ac.il</a><br>
_</blockquote></div><br>Just to quibble<br><br>Many Ortho's have made wholesale changes to nusach. Too many to even list. An Ortho working as educational director in a C shul told me that he could not understand the hypocrisy of attacking C changes in Nusach when many ortho's have done it, too. I must confess, I had no answer - except to become a student of the history of authentic nusach<br>
<br><br>Disclaimer:, I am in no way endorsing the C position as Halchially OK on this issue but as far as stam yeinam goes, there is SOME wiggle room here and even the Rema opened the door on this with a radical Teshuva. AIUI a lot of commercial wine is precessed w/o human contact at certain critical times. <br>
<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>