<div dir="ltr"><<<span style="font-size:12.8px">But not every communal practice is a minhag. So yes, minhagim are</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">inherently dynamic. But there are limits on valid ways for them to</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">change. Just as there is a minhag shtus when it comes to the creation of</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">a new minhag, there is when it comes to repealing it. >></span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">What is the difference between a community practice and minhag?</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Is a public fast on Sivan 20 a community practice or a minhag?</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Talking with a friend recently he noted that in the askenazi kDL in EY kitniyot is</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">slowly being eliminated. A number of major rabbis now pasken that lechatchila</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">kitniyot is batel be-rov. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.vosizneias.com/80925/2011/04/14/efrat-rabbi-eases-restrictions-of-kitniyot-for-ashkenazi-jews/">http://www.vosizneias.com/80925/2011/04/14/efrat-rabbi-eases-restrictions-of-kitniyot-for-ashkenazi-jews/</a></span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Others allow various new kitniyot oils like canola oil</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">see for example <a href="http://www.yeshiva.co/ask/?id=1400">http://www.yeshiva.co/ask/?id=1400</a> .</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://lifeinisrael.blogspot.co.il/2014/04/rabbanut-says-canola-oil-is-not-kitniyot.html">http://lifeinisrael.blogspot.co.il/2014/04/rabbanut-says-canola-oil-is-not-kitniyot.html</a></span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Most Israeli Ashkenazi shuls say ein kelokenu every day. A number of these shuls say hoshana immediately after Hallel during chol hamoed succot.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><<</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">But the nature of the modern world is such that rarely move to places</span></div><span style="font-size:12.8px">that have a single minhag hamaqom. And so minhag avos plays a greater</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">role in practice that at other times in history. >></span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">I would guess that the minhag of the shul and especially the yeshiva has an equal impact to family customs. Many (Most?) ashkenazim (at least in EY) hold the first 33 days of the Omer for not having weddings. A running battle with the chief rabbi of my town (a sefardi) who refuses to allow ashkenazim to hold a wedding after lag ba-omer because its against the Rama. Explaining that it is not my mionhag gets you nowhere - he decides what your minhag should be.<br></span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div>
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