[Avodah] "Ancient" Minhagim

[Rich, Joel]

My father once commented to me that had he lived at the time of the
Vilna Gaon, he would never have become a chossid.  His basic posture
towards anything new was similar to that of the Chasam Sofer -- "Chadash
assur  min haTorah."  Chassidus did stand the test of time and since his
father and grandfather had been Gerrer chassidim, my father was too.
(He also told me that his grandfather -- or maybe great-grandfather, I'm
not sure -- became a chossid because among the non-chassidim, he was the
last frum person in his town and there was nowhere else to go.  My
father said that chassidus saved yahadus in Poland.)
 

--Toby Katz
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This is one of the great conundrums (to me) of the halachik process -
the earlier ones do something that at best is talui at that time on
future results (imho that is the best case description) and that kashers
the result for later generations (and retroactively for the first
generation)?
KT
Joel Rich
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