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<font size=3>At 11:42 AM 6/16/2011, Lisa Liel wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">>At 03:10 PM 6/15/2011, Ben
Waxman wrote:<br>
>>It's called kibbutz galiyot and bitul hagalut. Get onboard
professor!<br>
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>On board what? Living in EY should not cause one to abandon
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>Ashkenazic minhagim. (BTW, the person who writes this blog
lives in EY.)<br><br>
Of course it should. Minhag goes by makom; not by
ancestry.<br><br>
Lisa <br>
</blockquote> If it is true that Minhag goes by makom, not by
ancestry, then why doesn't all of America follow the minhagim of
the Spanish/Portuguese Jews who first came here? All of the
shuls founded in America until the middle of the 19th century followed
the Spanish/Portuguese ritual. <br><br>
Did not the followers of the GRA who came to EY follow their minhagim and
not those of the Sephardim who were already in EY? Shouldn't they
have followed the minhagim that were in effect when they arrived,
according to you? <br><br>
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