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The discussion of minhag avos vs. minhag hamakom reminded me of a question I will soon be facing.<BR>
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I am now, thank G-d, a ben EY. However, I will have a pressing need to spend next Pesach in London. <BR>
My question is whether I should put on tefillin in Chol HaMoed. My minhag avos is to wear tefillin in Chol HaMoed. However, the undisputed minhag EY is not to wear tefillin, so I don't, because minhag hamakom trumps minhag avos. However, when I return to England, ought I to seek out a minyan where they don't wear tefillin (to conform to my current practice in EY), or a minyan where they do wear tefillin, to conform to my minhag avos. After all, in England there is no minhag hamakom in this regard. Do we say chozer v'neiur with regard to my minhag avos, or did it die forever upon my settling in EY? Of course, when Moshiach comes and Eliyahu Hanavi clarifies that everyone should put on tefillin on Chol HaMoed, this question will become moot.<BR>
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I once met an English Jew (in England, not EY) who said that he waited 3 hours after meat because that is minhag Anglia. Perhaps that was the case a century ago, but with the pre- and post-war influxes of Jews from Eastern Europe, I am doubtful whether there is still such a thing as minhag Anglia, any more than there is a minhag America.<BR>
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Another factoid: I recently heard from a Dutch oleh who made aliyah decades back that he asked R. Shaul Yisraeli whether he should continue to wait only 1 hour after meat. R. Yisraeli answered that, since he was not affiliated with a kehilla of Jews who followed this custom, he should abandon it in favour of the 6 hour wait. This is interesting, because the waiting period after meat is not a shul-specific custom, like nusach hatefillah. I suppose he would pasken that if I joined a Sephardi kehilla, I would have to abandon all minhagei Ashkenaz (l'kula and l'chumra?) in favour of the Sephardi minhagim. <BR>
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Kol tuv<BR>
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