Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site csd2.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!qantel!dual!lll-crg!seismo!cmcl2!csd2!martillo From: martillo@csd2.UUCP (Joachim Martillo) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: sex Message-ID: <3780089@csd2.UUCP> Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 11:18:00 EDT Article-I.D.: csd2.3780089 Posted: Thu Sep 12 11:18:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 15-Sep-85 09:57:11 EDT References: <1160@ihlpg.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 27 /* 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).