Rabbi Berel Wein - The Customs of Ashkenaz - Part 1

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Berel Wein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] this series of lectures three lectures tonight and next Tuesday night and then the following Monday night deal with customs of Ashkenazi Jewry and since customs of Ashkenazi Jewry and since customs are very important people attach a great deal to customs so sometimes we have to know the origin of the customs and sometimes we have to know whether even the customs are valid my purpose here is not to change anyone's custom and certainly not to change the customs in our synagogue or any other synagogue in our synagogue or any other synagogue but there are fascinating things that are involved here and in understanding those things we will understand a broader range of topics in Jewish life than just the specific customs that are involved so tonight I'm going to speak about customs of prayer the customs within the three law according to the within the three law according to the custom of Ashkenazi and I'm going to speak about four different customs which have become widespread and prevalent and all four are subject to some sort of controversy because otherwise they wouldn't be Jewish customs the first topic has to do with the the first topic has to do with the recitation on the shabbat and yom tov of british may after they take the art of the torah out of the ark so we say at the beginning we save i even saw a hole around which is a verse from the torah and then they added a verse from the navi committee on sites ate a lot Varsham you shall owe him and then there

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