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<DIV>In a message dated 10/30/2008, sba@sba2.com writes:</DIV>
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size=2>>>In the early days (1950s), the Minhag in our Shul was for the
Chazan to make<BR>Kiddush in Shul after Maariv - Friday night.<BR>This minhag
was abandoned quite a long time ago. No idea why.<BR><BR>Our so-called
'sister'-shul in Sydney - which has long since lost its<BR>Hungarian-type
families and is mainly made up of BTs and neo-Litvaks etc<BR>(and not too many
of those either), still has this Minhag.<<<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>>>>><BR>From what I've read, poor people and travelers
used to sleep (and often, eat) in the shul and that's why they made kiddush in
shul. Nobody sleeps in shul anymore, everybody is going someplace else for
the meal and there is no need to make kiddush in shul. Some shuls retain
the custom anyway. New BTs or becoming-BTs might need to hear kiddush
in shul because they don't know how to make kiddush themselves.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><B><BR></B><BR><B>--Toby
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