[Avodah] YT Sheini Shell Golah and the Internet

[Zev Sero]

rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:
> RZS
>> Those places that never had the minhag were not required to adopt it.
> 
> Agrees
> Therefore any Jew who moved out of his year 358 CE location were now
> off the hook - such as Western Hemisphere
> And the original gzeira has faded away accept maybe Iraq and Persia!

No, you have it backwards.   Places that always kept one day were not
required to adopt two days.   New places that have no established
minhag have to go after the whole world, which is to keep two days.
The most radical take on this is the Rambam, who applies it even to
new settlements in EY itself; since they have no tradition of one day
they are drawn after the general minhag of the whole world.  Others
don't apply it that radically, because they don't believe that's what
the Sanhedrin could have had in mind.  But there's no sevara that a
Ben-Bavel can move to a new location and suddenly keep one day!

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