[Avodah] Minhag Avos and Minhag haMaqom

[Michael Kopinsky]

On 3/26/07, R' Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
>
> ...But I do not think the status quo is a good thing, or how minhag should
> work.
> While I might lament the death of a derekh hachaim that served my family
> so
> well for generations, not every minhag that I was raised with can and
> should
> emerge victorious. IMHO, it is better to see a singular minhag EY than a
> survival of minhag Litta or Aram Tzova. (And better to see a geulah than
> see a
> minhag America ever develop.)


To tie this in with a thread from a few months ago, we do see things like
"Havara Amerikait" developing organically.  And there are other locale-based
things today, though most are based on the particular mixtures of origins.
For example, much of the South African community waits 3 hours between meat
and milk, despite the overwhelming litvish majority.  (My hypothesis is that
since the yekkes were the "frummies" in a mostly not-so-observant community,
people said, "If three hours is good enough for them, it's good enough for
us too."  If anyone has actual info on this, please let me know.)
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