<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Yitzchok Levine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Larry.Levine@stevens.edu">Larry.Levine@stevens.edu</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;">
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Rabbi Menachem Mendel (Manual) Poliakoff is the dean of Baltimore rabbis.
He is a grandson of the Rabbi Avraham Nachman Schwartz, who founded the
Talmudical Academy of Baltimore in 1917. (See
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<a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/36516/Bringing_Torah_Education_To_Baltimore_Dr._Yitzchok_Levine.html" target="_blank">
Bringing Torah Education to Baltimore</a>"
</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times"><b>The Jewish Press,
</b>October 3, 2008, pages 57 & 75. ) </font><br><br>
Yitzchok Levine<br><br>
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<b><i>Background<br><br>
</i></b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times">A commonly-held
fallacy is that only within the geographical borders of today's Lithuania
did the various Jewish communities observe the Lithuanian customs.
The<br>
truth is </font><i>Minhag Lita
</i><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times">prevailed throughout most
of Eastern Europe, from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, including
Belarusia (White Russia) and substantial sections of Poland.<br></font></div><br><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>If you take a Roedlehim Machazor <br>and the Vilna KOLBO machazor you will find a lot in common. Especially not the slichos during YK Shacharis, Musaph, and Mincha<br><br>The old Litvisher Minhag was fairly close to authentic Ashkenazic roots throughout the 18th Century. I do not know exactly how it evolved away.<br>
<br>Illustration: Yekkestoday still have no synogogue break on Yom Kippur. The Chayei Adam takes this for granted and therefore does NOT permit a Kallah leniencies to look presentable because "people are in shul all day long"<br>
<br>But today, Most American non-Yekke Ashkneazic shuls DO have a break. Sp we see things changed even inthe Litvisher velt.<br><br>I would guess that one can still extract the authentic Litvisher minhaggim from books by using a careful read of Chyei Adam, AhS, And certain teshuvos from Lita. <br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Kol Tuv - Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a><br><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nishma-Minhag/">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nishma-Minhag/</a><br>
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