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The Baba Sali was known to ONLY sing during Seuda Shlishit. No Divrei Torah. Just singing.
My wife and I are from the EXACT same “ethnic” background and even then there are differences! Go for Middot and comparability. Not artificial boundaries like “BT”, “FFB”, “Litvish” etc. etc.
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I would be fine with Ethiopian and even Ashkenazi
Geordie613: You missed an important one. Shvi’i Shel Pesach. The three are Shvi’i Shel Pesach, Shavuot and Hashana Rabba. Never heard YK.
This is the problem. When people make the ikar tafel and the tafel ikar. Of course it’s a nice custom to stay up all night but it’s not a chiyuv of yehareg ve’al yaavor. What’s so difficult to understand? Why does everything have up be so complicated. Of you can stay up, great. If you can’t, no worries.
There is no issur to do this. But judging on Girsa Deyankuta, this was never done.
We held our son’s upsherin during Chol Hamoed Pesach as per the Kaf HaChaim
We don’t shave during Omer
The Ben Ish Hai says that Mordechai had long peot
There are leniencies.
Purely cultural. You are not less religious if you don’t do it. Ashkenazic meshugas.
There’s a lot of mahloket among Ashkenazim. Sheesh.
Not everyone calls it that. We call it Shemini Shel Pesach
Shehakol. Rav Ovadia rules that mushrooms are shehakol since mostly they are hydroponic
Is this what Ashkenazim worry about??
The Jews used to be an enlightened people. Oy.
Ashkenazim are definitely prone to seclusion and extremism. This is not a universal thing among all Jews, thankfully.
Is this really what you guys are wasting your time thinking about? Get a life.
What makes him “very Yeshivish”?
The answer is that Yeshivish is an artificial, modern phenomenon. They took an ideal and applied to the masses and expect people to conform to it. Doesn’t work, ergo, unhappy.
I don’t think anyone holds that eggs are basari. Is this another meshugas from our brothers from the north?
CORRECTION:. eat food that was cooked in a pot that was used to cook rice
Yes I’m aware of the Ashkenazic stringency to Egg Matza.
Here’s a question: can an Ashkenazi eating at a Sephardi eat food that was used to cook rice?Rebbitzen: IYH!
BH I have been giving a Mishna class at shul every Shabbat before Mincha and we have finished several Mesechtot.
I will now embark on Shu”t Yabia Omer