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<p>In Avodah Digest V23#224, RMB replied to RAFolger:<br>
> The way ROY understands minhag hamaqom, the BY and his generation fully established it in EY as being that of Edot haMizrach. I would think -- as modified by Qabbalas haAri, but I don't see ROY say that. <<br>
Does that position help or hurt alleged sanction by ROY for an aveil to say "v"yatzmach..." when in a maqom which has never had "v"yatzmach..." as part of its nusach? I would prefer to think it limits p'saq BY to "eretz Yisrael and neighboring countries" and doesn't include New World lands (where s'faradim may have been the first Jews to populate certain areas but where many other communities were later founded by Ashk'nazic Jews) or even post-BY movements. <br>
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A guten Shabbes and all the best from<br>
--Michael Poppers via RIM pager<br>
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