<html><head></head><body dir="auto" lang="en-US" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"> <div style="font-family: sans-serif;">Relying on the old mss is not dogmatic, it is standard scholarly practice. If they all agree, then that was minhag Yisroel, and any grammarian who thinks he knows better than the ancient sources is committing a grievous methodological error (unfortunately, there were a lot if them, and just see what R Yaakov Emden had to say about some in L'shon Eres).</div><div style="font-family: sans-serif;">Feel free to make up your own rules and change the text. You will just be violating what Chazal say about changing the nusach. </div><div style="font-family: sans-serif;">I confirm that trying to establish the correct nusach is very difficult. But the only way is by studying the oldest mss. and classifying them, not by developing your own theory if what they should be. <br><br>Rabbi Seth Mandel•</div><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif;">WADR it is just dogmatic to assume that one set of </div><div style="font-family: sans-serif;">Preumtpions is superior to the other</div><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: initial;">The GRA revised minhog Yisroel many many times appealing to older sources etc. </span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: initial;">Why not role back kitniyyos?</span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: initial;">We have no mss. From hazal. As per Ramabam anh post-Talmudic opinion is subject to dispute.</span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: initial;">The massoretes argued on Bavli.</span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: initial;">Sorry I don't buyt it. It is a belief. A dogma. Period. Defensible? Perhaps? Imperative voo shtayt geshirbbeb? Where is a source for that assertion?</span></div></body></html>