[Avodah] ashkenazi minhag

[Zev Sero]

On 28/04/2011 10:17 AM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote:

> 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.

On daily duchening, Chabad and the Prushim were on the same page: yes
in EY, in principle yes in Chu"l too, but in practise no.  So it's no
surprise that it was established.


On 28/04/2011 12:15 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> Was it simply that they were the smallest of the three groups, and
> therefore sometimes their practices were railroaded?

I'm not aware of any statistics, but there's another problem: they
weren't all in the same area.  The chassidim originally settled mainly
in Tzfas, and then after the earthquake in Tveryah, and -- in the case
of Chabad -- in Chevron.   In Y'm the legal position of Ashkenazim was
tenuous for a long time, so they had to adopt certain Sefardi practises;
e.g. they weren't allowed to have their own shechita, so they accepted
the Sefardi shitos on nikkur.  That's also why Yerushalmim wear those
gold bekitches with the blue stripes.

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