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<font size=3>At 10:24 AM 11/8/2016, Micha Berger wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">That's because there is no one
answer. You're asking for a standard when<br>
there was none. Different shuls or towns had different minhagim. All<br>
people can do is describe their notion of the range. And if one
author<br>
thinks some practice is an outlier, far from any of the norms and
another<br>
does not, they both could end up describing the same history
differently.<br>
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Are we to deduce the same for other practices, namely, that
there was no single standard? If so, then the Yahadus we have today
is a far cry from what it was originally. People did many different
things. For example, the format of tefillah was established
by the Anshe Knesses Ha Gedola. Before this occurred,
presumably people had widely different versions of, say, shemone
esrei. If so, then why is there so much emphasis in Judaism
today regarding doing mitzvas in a very precise and prescribed
manner?<br><br>
YL</font></body>
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