<br><tt><font size=2>>>>My point is that it is the nature of customs
to develop and change over time. In fact, it could be argued that if the
nature of a given society changes, then it *needs* to change its minhagim
as well.</font></tt><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
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</font><font size=3 face="Arial">---if true, it's not clear to me the objective
criterion on when to raise the threat of cherem, calumny etc to new
minhagim/practices. in the past , people remarked that custom that
develops from non-jewish [and maybe today we would add non-frum] pracitces
would be objectionable. but then anything within the corpus of frum
minhagim should be ok.</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Arial">let me ask this. i know in some DL communities
, the nusach haShatz is determined by teh Shatz [ ie
nakdishach for shacharis may be folowed by naaritzcha for mussaf].
has any shul in chu'l adopted this practice?</font>
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