<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(6, 7, 16); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Regarding Akiva Miller's thoughtful response: "And He gave us a Torah<br>which is so perfect that it includes ideas and procedures for</span></font></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(6, 7, 16); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">improving it with the addition of things like prozbul, muktzeh,<br>brachos, and others" -- it brought to mind the talmudic statement:<br>"Minhag mevattel halacha," which applies in a surprising number of<br>cases -- similarly with takkanot. I am aware, however, that there is quite </span></font></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(6, 7, 16); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">a different understanding and application of this in the different Movements,<br>and I don't mean to quote it as sanctioning practices in the C.<br>Movement which would be contrary to O. beliefs and practices.<br><br>As a side, I recall as a child growing up in Hartford we had the Oxy<br>which was a Free Loan Society for Jews. If it weren't for that, I probably<br>would've gone hungry. Had it been today, my father would've had to use<br>their services for gasoline.</span></font></span></blockquote><br><div> K.T.</div><div> ri</div></body></html>