Although I am not too fussed about this particular practice, I am all for preserving the Sephardi Minhagim and Kol Hakavod to the Rabbi who has the scholarly status and comand to be taken note of. A leader without doubt.

Forget Ashkenazi and Sephardi - let us unite, we are just Jews.. but as an Ashkenazi.. i want to be sephardi better food, life, party.

I study twice a week with a sephardi teacher at the kollel and he always explains the differences in custom to me. Ovidia Yosef and his son are engaging in politics as usual, religious custom differs from halacha as a choice to follow, not an obligation. The variety of custom is a strength, I as an askenazi personally would choose to follow sephardi custom if my bride would feel more comfortable with it. The reverse shouldn't be a problem either, purity isn't in custom, it's in faith and religious law.

What is "capping an egg?" What do - um - egg-ot have to do with anything anyway??? Ran, is that your name or what you did after you wrote this? (If it's from the Torah, I'll just betcha it's in Leviticus.)

just curious, some people swear by them, others swear At them.

What are you talking about. If it's galut nonsense, then I suspect you can trace your heritage directly back to Jews who have always been in the land... You obviously keep all customs only of Eretz Yisrael and are neither Sephardic, Ashkenazic, Ethiopian, Mizrahi, Maghrebi, or any other type of Jew, just Israeli, right? I highly doubt it. So honestly cut the garbage, okay?!

You sound very kind. My advice, create your own minhag and nusach because you will find yourself in a very small minority. As for Sephardic practice, it's highly threatened and you need some extremists to keep it alive, othewise it will die out. We hall have beautiful traditions and an ecumenical attitude is not reason enough to just say, "Oh, the heck with it all!" Think of all the beauty, light, wisdom and knowledge, and sense of self and identity that could chas v'chalila be lost if everyone went that way!

It's not Leviticus. It's Jonathan Swift. It is from a satire about fighting about irrelevant things.