[Avodah] Longevity of Minhag haMakom

[Zev Sero]

On 03/10/18 18:32, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 12:16:33PM -0400, 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?
> 
> While this is hard to picture, as there was no continuity between the EY
> community of Minhag EY of Chazal's day and the current Yishuv, ROYosef does
> make a similar point.
> 
> ROY believes that if an Ashkenazi makes aliyah, they really ought to
> switch to Minhagei Sepharad. On the grounds that the SA set minhag EY.
> He does later find heterimg for Ashkenazim to continue with their old
> minhagim, but he does believe it's just that, a heter, and if an Ashkenazi
> Israeli wished to switch, by all means they should do so.

But does he even address the question of what right the SA, or his whole 
Sefardi community, had to set minhag EY, or the minhag of all the other 
countries they colonised after gerush Sefard, when there were existing 
communities with contrary minhagim?  What argument works for them and 
not for the subsequent Ashkenazi mass immigrants?


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