[Avodah] Minhag Avos and Sephardim

[Daniel Israel]

On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:31:36 -0600 Michael Makovi 
<mikewinddale at gmail.com> wrote:
>Of course, there may be minhag haMakom in some practices, and not 
>in others. Perhaps there is no minhag haMakom regarding kitniyot 
>(thus, the American Sefaradim aren't sinning), but there is indeed 
a 
>minhag haMakom to say the bracha for the State of Israel.

Nitpick: I don't think the latter is a good example, for two 
reasons.  One, the State of Israel is relatively recent, I'm not 
sure that we have any clear minhag in America regarding such a 
bracha (certainly many kehilos don't say one).  Second, this may be 
a matter of halacha, not minhag.  Certainly many of those who don't 
say such a bracha would object on halachic grounds.

All of which is tangential to the point you are making.

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Daniel M. Israel
dmi1 at cornell.edu