This post has it all wrong.
Yes, there is a Jewish advantage to keeping the custom of one's avos. But to suggest that a person has to look back two centuries to find the customs kept by his great-great-great-grandfathers when they were frum, find a little village in the Ukraine and base his whole avodas hashem on that is unreasonable, unless it's a hobby. But to say you will stop learning a sefer or drive yourself crazy in order to learn another way to put on tefillin is really pushing it. Man, you need a guide.
B'Ahavah,
Yehupitz
Posted by Yehupitz at January 30, 2005 10:09 PM