[Avodah] ashkenazi minhag

[Chanoch (Ken) Bloom]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 08:00:23PM -0400, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 04:33:15PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
> > On 27/04/2011 4:24 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> >> Since Seph and Nusach Ari say "Veshamru", the Perushim not saying it
> >> didn't set minhag EY.
> 
> > Except that Chabad *doesn't* say "veshamru"...
> 
> Nu so I erred, but it's not an "except"-ion to my rule. If the Talmidei
> haGra and Chabadnikim skipped it, but the Sepharadim said it,

(which is correct -- the Sepharadim do say v'sham'ru in chutz l'aretz)

> it's still
> not something all three qehillos of the original yishuv had in common. And
> thus not going to become minhag EY.

Or maybe the Chabadnikim are irrelevant to minhag EY for some reason,
because they don't say barechu after davening in chutz l'aretz (except
on Friday night), and they don't duchen every day in chutz l'aretz,
and both of those were on list A.

--Ken

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Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/