[Avodah] Consumer Alert: Minhog Scams On The Rise! Mislabeled, Cheap Middle Eastern Imports Flooding In, Threatening To Overwhelm Natives!

[Ben Waxman]

From: "Prof. Levine" <llevine at stevens.edu>
> With so much travel these days between Eretz Yisroel and the diaspora 
> lands, instant worldwide communication, so many youngsters as well as 
> more mature students studying in the Holy Land, and massive amounts 
> of Judaica produced in and exported from there, we are faced with a 
> virtual invasion of foreign customs.

It's called kibbutz galiyot and bitul hagalut. Get onboard professor!

From: Prof. Levine 
> Question: In EY the Torah was read in a 3 or 3 and half year cycle.
> If you want to follow the original EY way, then why are you following
> the Babylonian yearly cycle? The answer is because when they went
> back to EY they took with them their Golus minhagim.

By the way, I never said that I want to follow the original EY
minhag. That is Machon Shilo's thing. I said that minhag changes and
there is nothing wrong with that. Certainly using the word "scam" to
describe the process is outrageous.



Professor do you know I don't speak Yiddish? Because my grandfather
moved to America.

Yes, moving causes changes. Living, working, marrying, with Jews from
all over the world causes changes. It is inevitable.

And I will repeat the question that has been asked to you several times
already: Minhag Askkenaz has changed/developed over the centuries. Why
do you (and this web site) want the process of change to stop?

Even the example that you give (reading the Torah) proves the point:
there was an original minhag and it changed!!!

If you want to go back to "original minhag" in everything, then drop
kitniyot. Pronounce ayins and chets. Allow yibum. The list is endless.