<div dir="ltr"><<<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">But a short while back, I encountered what appears to me to be a direct</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">contradiction to RYBS's position in the Y-mi. Yuma 2:1 (10b) we are told</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">that they held 4 separate lotteries to divide the avodah, "kedei laasos</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">pumpei bedavar", and again at 2:4 (13b), we are told that extra kohanim</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">were used to carry the ayil up the kevesh for the same reason.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">
<br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Opening up </span><a href="http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=pomp" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 101, 204); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=pomp</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> we learn that</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">the English "pomp" is from the Greek meaning "solemn procession,</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">display".</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">
<br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">So, "kedei laasos pumpei bedeavar" means that these things were</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">NOT halachic, and in fact practices done in the BHMQ only for their</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">ceremonial value.>></span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">We also have the ceremony of cutting the Omer done to show up the Saducees.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">However, more generally there are many ceremonies in Judaism. When many people do it we call it a minhag rather than a ceremony.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">One example is lighting the chanikyah in shul which even has a bracha though the origin is not very clear and even for those who do not recite a blessing on minhagim.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif">Though RYBS would disagree the Chabad custom of lighting a menorah in public places is certainly ceremonial.<br clear="all">
</font><div><br></div>-- <br>Eli Turkel<br>
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