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From: martillo@csd2.UUCP (Joachim Martillo)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: sex
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Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 11:18:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 12 11:18:00 1985
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/* csd2:net.religion.jewish / teitz@aecom.UUCP (Eliyahu Teitz) /  4:53 pm  Sep 10, 1985 */

>	As for whom we follow, Ashkenazic law is decided by the Rama ( Rabbi
> Moshe Isserlis ) who wrote a commentary on R. Karo's work. Where he disagrees
> with R. Karo he writes a note, otherwise he agrees. The S'faradim generally
> follow Rambam ( I say generally to fend off the S'faradi attack I anticipate
> about an Ashkenazi writing about s'faradi law, when after all I'm probably
> not even Jewish ).

I assume this   refers to me.   Since I  specifically  exempted  those
Ashkenazim whose behavior is recognizably Jewish by Sefardi standards,
I am not sure why you are saying this.

I believe my position is reasonable.  Given that the  Jewish community
is not isolated from the non-Jewish population in the USA, if a person
is  not  acting in   a  recognizably Jewish  fashion,   he  should  be
considered non-Jewish.

I  have heard  Turkish  non-Jewish  acquaintances  make a  distinction
between the Sefardim  in Turkey who are  musevi (the  polite  word for
Jewish)  because the little that  they  do  is recognizably Jewish and
Ashkenazim who are yiddish because what they do is so bizarre.

Anyway, I  have no quarrel with your  family.  I have  heard that when
Dr.  Raccah  asked  your grandfather(?)  whether  he should change his
nusah, your grandfather told him no because one should not  go  from a
higher level of qedushah to a lower (at least in prayer).