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[Rich, Joel]

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.
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Yes it would - but it is not an halachic statement. I have yet to hear a good explanation of this issue (other than the "second wave" should have followed the practices of the first , but once they didn't, they created a new reality  -or-  the rules/reality of minhag have changed since the Talmudic geocentric  rules   were promulgated (not clear to me by whom))
KT
Joel Rich
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