tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post4957226400990865294..comments2024-03-05T21:22:43.426-05:00Comments on parshablog: Two Shorts - Slippery Slope of Organ Donation; A Defense of Rav Ovadiah Yosefjoshwaxmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03516171362038454070noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-32785679688270982562007-08-01T06:40:00.000-04:002007-08-01T06:40:00.000-04:00yes.especially since he is speaking to a sefardic ...yes.<BR/>especially since he is speaking to a sefardic audience, and it seems to be primarily Ashkenazic rabbis supporting Y rather than X.<BR/><BR/>For example, if the Chazon Ish ruled for a group who considered him their prime posek that the shiurim needed to be doubled, despite a mimetic tradition of smaller cups of wine, I would expect that men would follow him. If the highest posek of some group ruled that the nusach haTefillah should be X, and that saying Y instead was wrong and should be avoided, they would listen to their posek despite the mimetic tradition of saying Y.joshwaxmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149022516101476797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-5637925170067343672007-08-01T03:45:00.000-04:002007-08-01T03:45:00.000-04:00you expect that in a parallel situation, men would...you expect that in a parallel situation, men would give up their mimetic tradition, also supported by many halakhic heavyweights, in response to some other halakhic heavyweight telling them that their ancestors [and their rabbis!] don't know squat?Steg (dos iz nit der šteg)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07694556690190505030noreply@blogger.com