Halakhic Thought

[debka_notion]

So the egal minyan at JTS does not give the first and second aliyot to a kohen and levi, respectively. However today the person to whom they gave the first aliyah was a kohen. And they went on about their usual progression, so the next person was not a levi, nor did they give the second aliyah to the same person. And I understand not giving out aliyot based on that status issue, and since it was established for the sake of peace, I wouldn't complain about a minyan that does not hold by it for the sake of peace. But once you do call a kohen for the aliyah- I do wonder what the best choice of action would have been. On the other hand, they had handed out the aliyot in advance, and I know that once you call someone, you don't replace them, even if you should have called someone else- so maybe handing out the aliyot has some of the same status. It's just an interesting thing to think about.

Comments

Re: It's Gelilah.

[hotshot2000.livejournal.com]

Fascinating. My idea was to open the Shulhan Arukh, find the right siman, and then look at later and earlier sources. I guess I have a more formal/textual definition of minhag than you do :-)

Re: It's Gelilah.

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Well, the ideal project, in my eyes, would be to do both, compare them, and try and figure out what changed/why it changed/what was going on with the difference.

Have I mentioned that a chunk of my undergraduate work involved Jewish sociology?