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<DIV><BR>From: "kennethgmiller@juno.com" <A
href="mailto:kennethgmiller@juno.com">kennethgmiller@juno.com</A></DIV>
<DIV><BR>>>Over the years, many posts in many threads have bemoaned the
loss of <BR>various minhagim, and changes to them, and have hailed the KAJ
<BR>community as a stalwart of retaining old-time Ashkenaz..... <BR><BR>I was
thus very surprised to read in R' Yitzchok Levine's post, of <BR>Rav Schwab
adding hakafos to Maariv of Simchas Torah in not one, but <BR>two such shuls.
I'm curious what his reasons were, and what the <BR>shuls' reactions
were.<<<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>.</DIV>
<DIV>I suspect his reason was that the minhag /not/ to have hakafos on ST was
not a /genuine/ minhag but a Reform-influenced practice.</DIV>
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<DIV>And the way Yekkes "dance" there is not all that big a change from not
having hakafos to having hakafos. At least that's how it was in the
Yekke shul in Joburg when I was there. (I say this with all due
respect and affection for a community my father much
admired.) <BR></DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby
Katz<BR>=============</B></FONT></DIV></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>