[Avodah] Cancel Simchas Torah!

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 10/12/2015 10:55 AM, Prof. Levine via Avodah wrote:
>> >Why stop with Simchat Torah? Why not claim that we should revert to
>> >minhag Eretz Yisrael from the 12th century across the board?

> Indeed,  why wasn't this done in EY?  Why bring "Golus" practices to
> EY by not going back to the way things were done in EY originally?

Why would Jews, arriving in a place where there was no established
kehillah, abandon their own minhagim and adopt those of Jews who once
lived there, *even if they knew* these minhagim (which they would have
had no reason to do)?   I asked you this before, and I know you read
the message, but you chose not to reply.   Do you think that when Jews
once more settled in Recife in the 19th or 20th century they should
have converted to S-P, just because the previous kehilla there had been
S-P?!

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