<html><head></head><body lang="en-US" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I think it is fair to say that the GRA was more "rule" based than tradition based. Which usually means he sided with Sephardim o<span style="font-family: 'Slate Pro'; line-height: initial; font-size: initial; text-align: initial;">ver Ashkenazim. There are many exceptions to that where he actually favors Early Western Ashkenaz over later Eastern Ashkenaz.</span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: 'Slate Pro'; line-height: initial; font-size: initial; text-align: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: 'Slate Pro'; line-height: initial; font-size: initial; text-align: initial;">EG he has birkas hattorah before korbanos like the Tur did. And as Breuer's still does. </span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: 'Slate Pro'; line-height: initial; font-size: initial; text-align: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: 'Slate Pro'; line-height: initial; font-size: initial; text-align: initial;">So there is a thick slice of primordial Ashkenaz, but mostly he rejects Ashkenazi rulings. Why he stuck with kitniyyos baffles me to this day. </span></div><div style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; width: 380px; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><span style="font-family: 'Slate Pro'; line-height: initial;"><br></span><span style="font-family: 'Slate Pro'; font-size: initial; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;"></span></div></body></html>