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

[Saul Guberman]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 13:42, Prof. Levine <llevine at stevens.edu> wrote:

>   If it is true that  Minhag goes by makom, not by ancestry,  then why
> doesn't all of America follow the minhagim of the Spanish/Portuguese Jews
> who first came here?   All of the shuls founded in America until the middle
> of the 19th century followed the Spanish/Portuguese ritual.
>
> Did not the followers of the GRA who came to EY follow their minhagim and
> not those of the Sephardim who were already in EY?  Shouldn't they have
> followed the minhagim that were in effect when they arrived, according to
> you?
>
>
Rav Moshe Feinstein wrote that there is no minhag hamakom in the US.  I
don't think there is an halachic answer to the above.
Sociologically/psychologically it probably has to do with keeping a rooted
piece of life, when going through a huge move transition.  This would
probably answer both above questions.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.aishdas.org/pipermail/avodah-aishdas.org/attachments/20110616/18d1e3ac/attachment-0002.htm>