Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!cmcl2!csd2!meth From: meth@csd2.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: fundraising follow-up Message-ID: <42700009@csd2.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 21:32:00 EST Article-I.D.: csd2.42700009 Posted: Wed Dec 5 21:32:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 06:25:17 EST References: <1776@ucf-cs.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 27 Nf-ID: #R:ucf-cs:-177600:csd2:42700009:000:942 Nf-From: csd2!meth Dec 5 21:32:00 1984 or leyom chamishi leparshas vayishlach, 12 KISLEV 5745 -------- from yiri : >> Yearly appeals during High Holiday services: >> [Raphael: Contrary to the spirit of the day.] >> [Yiri: Heartily agree!] -------- from asher : the concept of an appeal on those days when 'yizkor' is said in shul comes from SHULCHAN ARUCH, YOREH DE'AH 249:16, in the RAMO. paraphrased into english, he says : that which people obligate themselves to give tzedakah 'for' ('avur) the dead (i.e., in their memory) at the times of saying yizkor, is an old/ancient custom (minhag vatikin), and it helps for the souls of those departed ones. the TAZ says that the source of this halachah is ORACH CHAIM 621:6, in the RAMO; and that it is based on that which the BEIS YOSEF brings in the name of the MORDECHAI; and that the reason for this is based on the ROKEACH 217. -------- asher meth allegra!cmcl2!csd2!meth