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edu:
Chafetz Chaim is the nickname given to one of the great rabbis of the later generations, who wrote a book against slander and gossip, entitled Chafetz Chaim. He usually has the last word on issues of Halacha (Torah law).
Chafetz Chaim, (also known by the name, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan) wrote in Likutei Halachot on Zevachim in the last few laws of the tractate that he summarizes in Torat Hakodshim:

Gentiles, in this time are permitted to offer sacrifices on a Bamah (that is to say, an altar that follows the rules of a Bamah). Chafetz Chaim adds that specifically a Bamah must be built and the sacrifice should not be made on the ground.
They are permitted to sacrifice there, domestic and wild animals, and birds, both male and female, either with blemishes or without blemishes on the provision that they are not lacking a limb. And they must be from pure {kosher} species and not from the impure.
Gentiles are only allowed to offer Whole Burnt offerings (the Hebrew term is Olot) and not peace offerings (offerings where part of the sacrifice is not burnt, but rather eaten).
It is forbidden to assist them or to be their emissary for this, for behold, we (Jews) have a prohibition that forbids us to offer sacrifices, outside (of its proper place in the Temple Mount). However, it is permitted for us to instruct them and to teach them how to offer sacrifices to the Almighty, may he be blessed. Now the wood that they need for offering the burnt offering should be from new wood, and so too, the fire, that a man has not previously made use of. This rule comes to exclude the use of broken vessels/tools.

Kahane-Was-Right BT:

--- Quote from: edu on August 25, 2010, 11:55:30 PM --- He usually has the last word on issues of Halacha (Torah law).

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That's not necessarily true, but there is no question to his greatness, his genius, and his righteousness, and he is of course a major halachic authority with his decisions due their proper weight.

edu:
Kahane- was- right
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--- Quote ---That's not necessarily true, but there is no question to his greatness, his genius, and his righteousness, and he is of course a major halachic authority with his decisions due their proper weight.
--- End quote ---
I believe most of the ashkenazic world does follow more or less the Mishna Brura which Chafetz Chaim  authored and almost everyone uses his rulings on hilchot lashon hara.

In any case, are you aware of some great rabbinic scholar who does not agree on the issue I brought up about animal sacrifices?

Kahane-Was-Right BT:

--- Quote from: edu on August 26, 2010, 12:52:00 PM ---Kahane- was- right
stated
--- Quote ---That's not necessarily true, but there is no question to his greatness, his genius, and his righteousness, and he is of course a major halachic authority with his decisions due their proper weight.
--- End quote ---
I believe most of the ashkenazic world does follow more or less the Mishna Brura which Chafetz Chaim  authored and almost everyone uses his rulings on hilchot lashon hara.

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An average Jew might or a posek who's not worth his salt, but a real posek really does not "follow" the Mishna Brura.   It just so happens that in the post-war period, the Aguda printed thousands and thousands of copies of Mishna Brura so that it became a widespread text, and people who don't really know how to pasken use it as a guideline for what to do.  And not that there's anything wrong with that.  It's just not how poskim are supposed to decide Jewish law and not how the great ones do.  The Chazon Ish gave consideration to Mishna Brura like any other aharonic halachic source in his decisions.

Even with all of that, there are many things people commonly do today that are in line with other halachic texts and NOT the mishna Brura.  So when people claim that "all Ashkenazim follow the mishna brura" or that "all have to follow it" - it's not really true.


--- Quote ---In any case, are you aware of some great rabbinic scholar who does not agree on the issue I brought up about animal sacrifices?

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I never disputed this particular case you bring up, I only wanted to modify the preceding statement on how the halacha works.  It could very well be this is halacha lemaaseh and maybe there's no dispute - I have no idea.

edu:
To Kahane-Was-Right BT
From the name you chose it is obvious that you are a Rabbi Kahane supporter.
Although, I can't testify what was going on in the entire period since Rabbi Kahane's Yeshiva in Jerusalem was established but I know as an absolute fact, that at least for a period of 2 years that I was close to the Yeshiva, when the head of the Yeshiva, Rabbi Yehuda Kroyser, taught these sections of the Talmud relating to Animal sacrifices, he would end off teaching from Chafetz Chaim's Likutei Halachot, to come away with a halachic conclusion and summary of the subjects touched upon in the Talmud.

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