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

[Rafi Hecht]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Prof. Levine <llevine at stevens.edu> wrote:
>  From http://tinyurl.com/3uuyha3

> One of the more difficult challenges we face in keeping the holy minhogim
> of our Ashkenazic ancestors is posed by present day unrestricted imports
> from Eretz Yisroel, of Sepharadic minhagim posing as Ashkenazic ones.
...

Loaded question: When Jews were initially exiled to Germany many centuries
ago, which Minhagim did they originally practice? Did anyone say that their
Minhagim were an adulteration of ancient Israel/Babylonian Minhagim?

Is there a stop to Minhagim being developed over the years? We no longer
live in Germany, we now live in other countries, and it seems that in modern
Israel Sephardic minhagim are seeping into Ashkenazim as Ashkenazi minhagim
are into Sepharadim. This is simply the fact.

Best Regards,

Rafi Hecht
rhecht at gmail.com
www.rafihecht.com
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