>>Over the years, many posts in many threads have bemoaned the
loss of
various minhagim, and changes to them, and have hailed the KAJ
community as a stalwart of retaining old-time Ashkenaz.....
I was
thus very surprised to read in R' Yitzchok Levine's post, of
Rav Schwab
adding hakafos to Maariv of Simchas Torah in not one, but
two such shuls.
I'm curious what his reasons were, and what the
shuls' reactions
were.<<
>>>>>
.
I suspect his reason was that the minhag /not/ to have hakafos on ST was
not a /genuine/ minhag but a Reform-influenced practice.
And the way Yekkes "dance" there is not all that big a change from not
having hakafos to having hakafos. At least that's how it was in the
Yekke shul in Joburg when I was there. (I say this with all due
respect and affection for a community my father much
admired.)
