[Avodah] Peanuts and other Kitnios

[Rich, Joel]

Again, where do we see a basis for considering the current mixture of
minhagim in a single city being anything more than a bedi'eved? And why
aren't we looking to accelerate the process of unifying?

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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The simplest answer would be sociological.  A more creative one would be
that while minhagim were clearly originally strongly location based,
given that there were situations of more than one beit din in a town
(and I'm not clear what conditions allowed/encouraged this), chazal must
have had a non location based svara which later gedolim built on because
of the conditions on the ground to allow/encourage multiple minhagim.

Given the membership of this list, perhaps one of our chashuv members
could access a gadol and ask the question?

KT
Joel Rich
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