<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Eli Turkel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eliturkel@gmail.com">eliturkel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> One famous example is the definition of shekia. SA paskens like Rabbenu Tam<br>
> that it means a second shkia "72 minutes" after sunset. <br>
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Eli Turkel<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br>AIUI everyone pretty much followed RT [e.g. See Tur re: Ta'anis and shekia as well as SA etc. [Exceptions include: Rambam re: Neros hanukkah etc. Levush about zmanei Tefillah.<br><br>
The Sea Change AIUI was the GRA and The SA Harav and the fact that Lithuania is so close to the Arctic cicrle it was impossible to follow RT.<br><br>Yekke and Hngraian communites still allow for Mincha after "shekia" [i.e first shekia} and [as mentioned above] Litvaks might have followed suit if not for the extreme latittude. <br>
<br>Three is a entire controversy brewing at Breuer's re: keeping the old zminim in the face of the Yeshivishe world's demand to daven BEFORE shekia...<br><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>
see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a><br>
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