[Avodah] Upsherin

[Ben Waxman]

As I've said before, they aren't sacrosanct and therefore the changes that 
are happening today (both chumra and qula), in our generation, are a 
contiuation of what has gone on before. Nothing to get bent out of shape 
about.

A small factoid about changes (or melting together) going on today: the new 
Koren Siddur (Hebrew Edition) has instructions for people davening in shul 
with a different nusach. For example, the Ashkenaz siddur you to say Ein 
Keliqeinu and Shir Shel Yom before Aleynu if you are in a Nusach Sefard 
shul.

Ben
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Micha Berger" <micha at aishdas.org>
>
> As I asked before, why is one set of minhagim sacrosanct, but others
> sets changes that need reversion? Every set of minhagim is a twig on a
> huge bushy evolutionary tree. They all include new ideas and changes,
> and probably the vast majority were accepted over the voices of the
> older generation complaning about these insane modern chumeros.
>