[Avodah] Minhag Avos and Sephardim

[rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com]

>                                          ... I'll reply with a
> non-mekor sevara for the anti-minhag-avot-ists:

> When the Spanish left Spain in 1492 and spread across North Africa and
> the Middle East, they were indeed no longer Spanish in the sense that
> the Spanish minhag no longer applied to them, since they had left the
> makom.
...
> Perhaps, then, in their new homes, had they put the matter up to a
> vote, and asked whether or not to continue the old minhag haMakom of
> Spain, they could have decided to drop that whole minhag and adopt a
> new one. But once the new makom adopts the minhagim of the old makom,
> the decision is done.

> Personally, I'd argue that today, Ashkenazim and Sefaradim are no
> longer bound by those minhagim; there is no minhag haMakom today...
> Michael Makovi"

Follow up question. Some of the same Sephardim assert that
When ashkenazim came in numbers they should have followed minhag hamakom
in. Both EY and NYC. And to surrender their minhag avos.
Why?

If Michael's model is accurate it might make
Sense if they had voted and established it already.

Otherwise if Sephardim were following minhag avos from Spain then
Ashkenazim should follow their minhag avos too.

KT
RRW
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