Yabia Omer

Another example of Meshugas from the A community. Who thinks about these things??

Perhaps those Manhattanites are finally trying to experience an authentic, natural Judaism as opposed to an artificially rigid and benighted one?

It’s not a question of insecurity. Imagine you worked with people that kept saying incorrect things about Jews. Eventually you’d want to correct them. Is that insecurity?

And I have made it clear that I am not Sephardic. Just like a white person can point out negative things that white people do and that, say, Hispanic people, do well, Hu Hadin here as well.

Do you guys perhaps not want to broaden your horizons? Are you beyond reproach?

Then stop churning fallacies like “The ‘A’ community built up the ‘S’ community”. Go out and learn and educate yourselves. Till then I’ll point out every single meshugas.

Yes.

I still want Hashem to be Mechaper baado (or baada, hard to tell). That doesn’t change.

All i mean is I take ANY Ashkenazic Mesora with a grain of salt. I’ll give you anexample: “Chassidishe” Shechita.
What does that even mean?? It’s a 300 year old movement. I have to somehow believe that when Satmar was created less than a century ago, they magically knew better than the Bet Yosef? Rambam?

For the record many, maybe most, “Satmar” people were not Satmar 2 or 3 generations ago. And you expect me to rely on that mesora?

Joseph. “Religiously strict” is proof of LACK of knowledge and LACK of understanding. When you are stricter than what the Rambam or SA prescribe it is because you don’t know the halacha and therefore are strict “just in case”. Halacha is not “just in case”. Halacha is the law and every Jew must be knowledgeable. When people go beyond that it is a sign of Am haartzut.

It is very well documented that Sephardim were much more learned, worldly and literate. Most Ashkenazim were not and that is reflected in many of the psakim of the Rama (who had to conform to Minhagim that were neged all the Gedolei Ha Halacha.

Secondly this notion that Ashkenazim built up Sephardim is a fallacy that has been repudiated many times. Ashkenazim know how to pump things up and market things. “Gadol Hador”, “Olam Hatorah”, “Ben Torah”. It’s all Nahrishkeit.

People who post on YWN are very very far from deciding who is and who isn’t a Gadol and who had more Torah observance.

The Ashkenazic lineage is questionable and as such if I had to pick I’ve said time and time again there is unquestionably more fidelity with the Sephardic mesora. It’s not even a question.

Tzeh ulmad

Additionally, as great as Rav Ovadia was, people have this notion that he was the only Sephardic “Gadol”. This is an affront to the many many other Sephardic Geonim of our time.

Ari-free: Are you joking? The average Ashkenazi baal bait DID NOT know Gemara. Period. Where did you get this from?

If anything it it well documented that Sephardim were much more learned, literate, worldly.

Again, when dealing with Ashkenazim we have to realize we’re dealing with a very very short Mesora whereas for Sephardim there is a long unbroken chain. As such the average person was much more equipped intellectually and Torah-wise.

So what are your talking about? We need sources for your claim.

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I can see the Aramaic being holy. But the Germanic one?

It’s not coincidental. It’s because of Khazar Meshugas.

Comfort is a valid and legitimate reason.

Rashi was meyuchas to King David so no. But there is such a thing as Ben Gerim. I wouldn’t respect Rashi less if he were a descendant of converts.

I don’t know what Yotzrot are. Well now I do. Not criticizing, just saying that the comment that Sephardim don’t do them because of Hefsek isn’t accurate. There are instances when there are ostensible Hefsekim even in Sephardic liturgy.

Lightbrite: ok I see what you mean.