[Avodah] Consumer Alert: Minhog Scams On The Rise!

[Prof. Levine]

At 12:30 PM 6/21/2011, R. Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote:
>From: "Chanoch (Ken) Bloom" <kbloom at gmail.com>
>
>Conclusion: RYL would call this a "Minhog scam", precisely because of
>its source in the kitvei haAri, but it's legitimately Sephardic (and
>probably Chassidic) minhag, precisely because of its source.

Let me again point out that I am not the one who used the terminology 
"minhog scam."  It comes from the web site http://tinyurl.com/3uuyha3

Be this as it may,  I have wondered more than once how the ARI could 
come along and change so many things and have these changes accepted 
by many communities.  It is all the more surprising to me given that 
he lived for only 38 years according to many sources.

Many German communities did not adopt these changes, but most others 
have.  I find this most surprising.   YL
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