[Avodah] Minhag Avos and Minhag haMakom

[Micha Berger]

RGS blogs on one of our recurring topics.

See "Keeping your customs"
<http://hirhurim.blogspot.com/2009/12/keeping-your-customs.html>:
> In the world of increased mobility in which we live, issues of custom
> become more complex than in the past. The Mishnah and Gemara (Pesachim
> 50a-51a) speak about someone who travels from a place that has one
> custom to a place that has another. If he is moving, and not just
> visiting, then he should adopt the custom of the city of his new
> residence.
...
> While this might seem like a new question, it is centuries old. Because
> Jews were expelled from different European countries throughout the ages,
> there were frequent questions about whether those refugees should maintain
> their previous customs or adopt those of their new hometown.

At the end he links to a discussion by RHS about family minhagim at
<http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/735162/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%91%D7%A2_%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A2>
or <http://bit.ly/582Fqz>.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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