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<font size=3>At 08:52 AM 3/30/2018, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Is that a common interperation
of minhag hamaqom -- that there be<br>
a common practice in all things? I understood minhag hamaqom to<br>
be designated practive by practice.</font></blockquote><br>
Otherwise the concept of Minhag Ha Makom is meaningless. In Europe
before the advent of Chassidus each community had its own distinct
practices and there was indeed a Minhag Ha Makom. My understanding
is that in Syria the Aleppo and Damascus communities had there own
minhagim (different) minhagim. To me minhag ha makom means that all
of the people have the same minhagim. In America I believe you have
this in New Square.<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>On the topic of
tefillin on ch"m, there is enough consensus in EY<br>
not to wear tham, that for this one topic there is a minhag
hamaqom.</font></blockquote><br>
This is changing. From
<a href="https://goo.gl/1PYXP4" eudora="autourl">https://goo.gl/1PYXP4</a>
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<font size=3>Many people wear tefillin on chol hamoed in Eretz Yisroel,
including some gedolim. However, some do it betzinoh so it is not so well
known. <br><br>
One such godol is the Erlau’er Rebbe. You can go in his beis medrash and
see him with tefillin. He keeps the minhogim of his zeide, the Chasam
Sofer, to wear tefillin on chol hamoed and daven nusach
Ashkenaz.<br><br>
There are even some minyonim where people wear tefillin on Chol Hamoed,
like a Yekkishe minyan in Bnei Brak that I know of.<br><br>
Bekitzur, Al titosh toras imecho, keep on following your minhog and Al
yisbayeish…., as the Rama says in beginning of Shulchan Aruch Orach
Chaim. <br>
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See the other comments there.<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>For other things?
Give it time. How long did it take Jews from Provence,<br>
Italy and elsewhere to congeal into a single minhag
Ashkenaz?</font></blockquote><br>
On the contrary, I doubt that the Chassidim will ever eat Gebrokts
on Pesach, the Sephardim will stop eating kitnyos, and the
non-Chassidic world will stop eating Gebrokts on Pesach.<br><br>
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