[Avodah] Simchas Torah & a Lost Minhag of the Gra

[Zev Sero]

On 03/10/18 12:16, Prof. Levine via Avodah wrote:
> 
> Why didn't those who returned to EY practice the minhagim of EY? For 
> example,  why didn't they go back to the 3.5 year cycle of reading the 
> Torah?

Why should they have?   Even if they were fully aware of the minhagim of 
the previous community that used once upon a time to exist where they 
now settled, why would they be bound by them?    In what way were those 
minhagim superior to their own?  When Spanish-Portuguese Jews renewed 
the Jewish presence in England should they have adopted the presumably 
French minhagim that English Jews practiced between 1090 and 1290?

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