[Avodah] Minhag Avos and Sephardim

[Micha Berger]

I would argue that the role minhag avos plays today is not innovation,
it's a special case. It's that we're in a period when new communities
are coalating.

When a bunch of Jews ended up living together in Ashkenaz 12 or 13
centuries ago, did they all do the same thing? Which same thing? The
practices of Italy? Israel? The few who came from Bavel because they
had exposure to the geonim?

Until a Minhag EY, Minhag America, etc... emerge, there is no minhag
hamaqom to conform to. Wait more time after the Shoah and the expulsion
from Moslem Lands, and I expect we (or more likely our grandchildren)
will be conforming to local minhagim...

... unless bayis Shelishi, a Sanhedrin and telecommunication mean that
there will be only one minhag globally on almost every issue.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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