[Avodah] minag avos

[Rich, Joel via Avodah]

Interesting article to read (I have the PDF) - Joseph Davis - "The Reception of the Shulchan Arukh and the Formation of Ashkenazic Jewish Identity".  Points to correlations between codifications in the "outside world" and Halacha as well as moving from geographic minhag/identity to others subunits (e.g. ethnic).

Any good actuary (or even a poor one) can tell you correlation doesn't prove causation, but it does provide some thoughts on some interesting questions (e.g. why the switch to ethnic minhagim from geographic ones?).

KT
Joel Rich
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