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[Ben Waxman]

Some of the changes are based on the below, but many other changes (like the 
downplaying of the importance of nusach) are being driven by the ingathering 
and mixing of the different groups. People from different groups live 
together and get married and then the way they live differs from how their 
grandparents live. And all of the above is a good thing.

Ben
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Micha Berger" <micha at aishdas.org>
>
> I agree to this point, but not because the change in itself is
> bad. Rather, it's because of the mechanism of change. We live in an
> era that has a shortage of erev Shabbos Jews, where there is too much
> focus on frumkeit rather than ehrlachkeit and yesodei haTorah. And so
> our new minhagim are coming from places of textualism and (in the more
> aggregious cases) out-frumming the Cohens.
>