[Mesorah] She'ata / Sha'ata

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 01:17:19AM +0000, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
: From this perspective, my preference is to daven the way the rav tells
: me, and not the way the linguist says. No matter how correct and sincere
: the linguist might be, it is the rav who is to perform the shikul hadaas
: of deciding whether this factor is more or less important than that
: factor, and so on.

I don't think it's the rav vs the linguist. It's the rav who doesn't
know history vs the academic who can tell you the Maharil didn't daven
that way.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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