<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/26/07, R' <b class="gmail_sendername">Micha Berger</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org" target="_blank">micha@aishdas.org
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">...But I do not think the status quo is a good thing, or how minhag should work.<br>While I might lament the death of a derekh hachaim that served my family so
<br>well for generations, not every minhag that I was raised with can and should<br>emerge victorious. IMHO, it is better to see a singular minhag EY than a<br>survival of minhag Litta or Aram Tzova. (And better to see a geulah than see a
<br>minhag America ever develop.)</blockquote>
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<div>To tie this in with a thread from a few months ago, we do see things like "Havara Amerikait" developing organically. And there are other locale-based things today, though most are based on the particular mixtures of origins. For example, much of the South African community waits 3 hours between meat and milk, despite the overwhelming litvish majority. (My hypothesis is that since the yekkes were the "frummies" in a mostly not-so-observant community, people said, "If three hours is good enough for them, it's good enough for us too." If anyone has actual info on this, please let me know.)
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