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From: Simcha Streltsov
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 00:00
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Joseph Bachman (jbachman@Radix.Net) wrote:
: So there's apparently this old east European custom of not studying Torah
: on Dec. 24 in the evening (Nittle Night) either so that no one thinks we
actually, as someone pointed out to me, the east european custom is
probably after the Greek Orthodox/Russian church - that is of Jan 7.
so, here is a halachik question - should we follow the old minhag,
or follow the minhagim of local Xians (and are American Evangelists
or Mexican Catholics, depending on your neighborhood) responsible
for those Russian customs?
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