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<font size=3>At 10:48 AM 9/6/2018, Marty Bluke wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">R' Yitzchak Levine wrote:<br>
"I personally do not understand where the custom to say the firstÂ
<br>
Slichos at night came from. My father-in-law, A"H,  told me
that in <br>
Europe selichos were said every day in the early morning starting atÂ
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about 4 am.<br><br>
The Vo'Sikin  Minyan I daven at will be saying Selichos this SundayÂ
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morning and every morning stating at 5:10 DST which is equivalent toÂ
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4:10 AM EST. This agrees with the practice that  my
father-in-law <br>
saw in Europe."<br><br>
The 5:10AM - 4:10AM is irrelevant. Selichos are supposed to be said
b'ashmores haboker, before alos hashachar. Alos Hashachar in Brooklyn now
is 5:03 so you are not saying selichos at the optimal time
either.</font></blockquote><br>
Be this as it may, I do not believe that one will find many shuls
in Brooklyn that says selichos earlier than 5:10 am, certainly not before
alos hashachar. Indeed, most say Slichos later. Many
have minyanim at 10 pm every night. <br><br>
The yeshivas start even later. I think that Chaim Berlin starts at
7:45 and says very little of the selichos. <br><br>
YL<br><br>
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