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<font size=3>It is time for me to begin my annual campaign to try to
convince people that there is no reason to wait until after Tzas Ha
Kochovim to daven Maariv on the first night of Shavuous. <br><br>
Many may be surprised to learn that it was not the practice in the
Ashkenazic world in the time of the Rishonim to wait to daven Maariv.
Also, it was not the practice of some Achronim. <br>
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The selections at
<a href="http://personal.stevens.edu/~llevine/maariv_on_shavuous.pdf" eudora="autourl">
http://personal.stevens.edu/~llevine/maariv_on_shavuous.pdf</a> are taken
from the sefer <i>Sheirushei Minhag Ashkenaz</i>, volume 4, by Rabbi
Benyamin Shlomo Hamburger. Anyone interested in going back to the
old-time religion and having an early minyan on the first night of
Shavuous? If you live in Flatbush, then please let me know. <br>
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Yitzchok Levine</font></body>
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