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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>From:
"Eli Turkel" <eliturkel@gmail.com><BR>Subject: Reb Moshe responded re
wearing modern<BR> American clothing that were a variation
from the traditions.<BR><BR>>>RMF also was against nusach sefard
(chassidic) as it was a change from<BR>tradition although that happened some
300 years ago. Evidently his<BR>opinion is that it makes no difference how
long ago a mesorah was<BR>changed it is still considered a change
today.<<<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV>>>>>><BR>Litvishe poskim say you do not change from Nusach
Ashkenaz to Nusach Ari or Sfard, because you should keep your family
mesorah. And if you want to change from Nusach Ari or Nusach
Sfard to Nusach Ashkenaz, that is OK, and even desirable, because it is changing
back to your family's original mesorah.</DIV>
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<DIV>Chassidishe poskim say that you /can/ and maybe even /should/ change from
Nusach Ashkenaz to Nusach Sfard or Nusach Ari, because you are rising in
madreiga from a lower nusach to a higher nusach, but you should not change the
other way because that would be going down to a lower nusach.</DIV>
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<DIV>This may apply to a recent thread in which the question was discussed,
could a computer be programmed to just look at all precedents, weigh them up and
come up with a psak? Could a computer be a posek?</DIV>
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<DIV>In answer, it appears that you would have to specify in
advance whether you wanted a Litvishe or a chassidishe computer.
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<DIV>(Ashkenazi or Sephardi -- same thing)</DIV></DIV>
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