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<font size=3>At 05:49 AM 5/19/2009, R. Y. Grossman wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Yitzchok Levine
<Larry.Levine@stevens.edu> wrote:<br><br>
> It is time for me to begin my annual campaign to try to convince
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> people that there is no reason to wait until after Tzas Ha Kochovim
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> 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
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> Ashkenazic world in the time of the Rishonim to wait to daven
Maariv. <br>
> Also, it was not the practice of some Achronim.<br><br>
But some Aharonim do encourage it (see Taz and Hak Ya'akov beginning<br>
of OH 494), so how can you possibly say that "there is no reason
to<br>
wait"? Do you believe that any Minhag instituted by Aharonim
is<br>
automatically invalid? What about Rishonim? If they had a Minhag
that<br>
didn't exist in Talmudic or Geonic times, should we abandon it?<br><br>
Yitzhak</blockquote><br>
I will grant you that I should have chosen my words more carefully and
written something like, "One need not wait to daven Maariv on the
first night of Shavuous. There are poskim to rely on if one wants to
daven early."<br><br>
BTW, IIRC, it is the TAZ who says that the "custom" of not
eating in the Succah on Shemini Atzeres is a "minhag
boorius." Yet, many of those who insist that one must wait
until Tzeis to daven maariv based on the TAZ ignore what he says about
eating in the Succah on SA.<br><br>
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