[Avodah] Longevity of Minhag haMakom

[Zev Sero]

On 04/10/18 15:10, Ben Bradley via Avodah wrote:
> 
> Further question: minhag hamakom seems to be a function of cities not 
> countries. Yet recent poskim, both Ashkenazi and Sephardi, seem to 
> assume such thing as 'minhag EY'. When was such a concept first discussed?

Perhaps the first post-Talmudic book on halacha was a booklet on the 
differences between minhag EY and minhag Bavel.   So the concept of 
minhag EY goes back to at least the time of the geonim.

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