Reply To: Frolicking Selichos Concert

Milhouse, we may be talking about two different things. I’m speaking of selichos that has no basis in any Jewish tradition. They are novel and introduced new elements, whether musical instruments or dancing or a festive atmosphere or whatnot, that simply didn’t exist 50 or 100 years ago during selichos.

Would you find it acceptable to turn the Yom Kippur and Tisha B’Av tefilos in shul into a festive atmosphere with merry singing and dancing?

As I asked earlier, where do they get the right to innovate Jewish customs on tefilos that we’ve been doing without these innovations for the last 1000+ years? Are they smarter than all our history of Gedolim and zeidas? Which Gedolim back them?; please name names.