[Avodah] Minhag Yisrael

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:40:24PM -0500, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote:
: This time, you get the cognitive dissonance, as your original Ashkenazi
: minhag has been ignored in the drive to call something "minhag Yisrael".

I think this reverses cart and horse.

The first step is that a norm congeals in our new combined communities.
We then fail to see the alternatives, since no one we know (even among
those whose ancestors came from other places than ours) does otherwise.
THEN we call it "minhag Yisrael". Which does accelerate the process of
new minhag formation.

But my pony in this race is the idea that we are supposed to be seeing
knew minhagei hamaqom emerging for these new remixes of population in
our new meqomos.

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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