tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626610279159340013.post3484461112126807212..comments2024-01-21T05:17:46.958-05:00Comments on The Partial View: Yom tefillah for 5th day of Chanukah on ban of Metzitza b'pehTomim Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09358985107505490625noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626610279159340013.post-11888119383685175472012-12-13T19:12:10.748-05:002012-12-13T19:12:10.748-05:00The thing is that if you look through the psakim o...The thing is that if you look through the psakim of the Litvisher poskim (see R' Pirutinsky's Otzar HaBris) you'll see that most held MBP was pretty much a minhag - you don't just dismiss it, but not something to be moser nefesh for either.<br /><br />Furthermore, even those who held MBP should be done didn't necessarily hold you couldn't use a glass tube. See e.g. Orchos Rabbeinu for the Steipler & CI's position.<br /><br />It seems to me that this frenzied opposition to a seemingly benign Health Department request is being driven by Ungarisher Chassidim. Yeshivisher media outlets have been sympathetic to their position and the tzibbur at large has gotten worked up about it, to the point that now the leadership is being forced into a hard line stance, that they would not have taken were it not for this dynamic.Fotheringay-Phippsnoreply@blogger.com