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“Yes, thank you. That’s what you, me, and several others have been repeating throughout this thread, ”
Can you please point out where youve said that? The mods may have deleted it for whatever reason, I cant find it. I too am in agreement!
In fact youve said the opposite on several occasions. Youve said that the problem is one of simcha, at times that are supposed to be serious eg “There are times when we’re supposed to have simcha, and then there are times like leil slichos.” (unless you translate simcha as frolicking?)
“We aren’t talking about BMG guys going off the derech if they can’t have slichos parties. These are people already into hippie Judaism and it should go without saying ”
two people are using your (excellent) screen name the other one was right I’ll repost in verabtim, :
“A scarier trend that isn’t getting as much attention is people not making it to Slichos altogether. I’ve now seen multiple places not be able to get a minyan together for slichos. My slate is not totally clean in this regard so I don’t want to sound too much like I’m getting up on a soap box and yelling at the masses. It’s just a scary thought that decades from now selichos could be one of those things like tikkun chatzos that people “used to be careful to say.””
The only question is is it better if in decades people says selichos is something people “used to be careful to say.””
Or
selcihos is something that never had a guitar
(Obviously I’m not saying this applies to all, but as you note it does apply to many)