[Avodah] minhagei EY vs chul

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 05:31:45PM +0000, Kenneth Miller wrote:
: One thing that I *am* pretty sure of is that in general, the psak of
: the Gra tends to carry much more weight in EY than in chu"l...

Also, the Gra and the SA haRav veer from Ashkenazi precedent on many of
the same issues. Less suprising than that might sound, since both valued
textual argument more than historical practice, and both are Litvisher
mequbalim, after all. And, that veering from Ashkenazi precedent based
on arguments in sepharim will often land you in the same place as the
Sepharadim. Espactially if you accept the idea that Sepharadim have more
historical lineage to Bavel than Ashk do.

So, the Yishuv haYashan's three core communities often had a common
practice, and even more often two of them would afree on a practice,
that was not accepted across a similar percentage of chu"l.

And so I think minhag EY is shaped more by that overlap than by the
minhagei haGra brought by the Perushim in particular.

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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