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[Rich, Joel]

I think that one of the reasons people like R' YL are uncomfortable with the new minhagim is not so much because they are new minhagim - as I'm sure he'll agree, and like R' MB said earlier, minhagim changed before and will change again. But the sheer volume of change makes it seem like there's a qualitative difference between the changes now and earlier changes. In earlier times, because of lack of mobility and communication, it might have taken a hundred years for a minhag to be adopted in a community, while today new practices (whether or not they rise to the level of minhag) are adopted in a matter of years. But the truth is that this isn't a qualitative change but a quantitative one - just compressing the timeline. 

KT,
MYG

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To me it's also in some cases  the (unknowing?) pretense that there is no change and that the prior generation "forgot" that in "the alte heim" everyone did X.
KT
Joel Rich
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