[Avodah] Waiting to Daven Maariv on Shavuous

[Prof. Levine]

At 05:49 AM 5/19/2009, R. Y. Grossman wrote:

>Yitzchok Levine <Larry.Levine at stevens.edu> wrote:
>
> > It is time for me to begin my annual campaign to try to convince
> > people that there is no reason to wait until after Tzas Ha Kochovim
> > to daven Maariv on the first night of Shavuous.
> >
> > Many may be surprised to learn that it was not the practice in the
> > Ashkenazic world in the time of the Rishonim to wait to daven Maariv.
> > Also, it was not the practice of some Achronim.
>
>But some Aharonim do encourage it (see Taz and Hak Ya'akov beginning
>of OH 494), so how can you possibly say that "there is no reason to
>wait"?  Do you believe that any Minhag instituted by Aharonim is
>automatically invalid?  What about Rishonim? If they had a Minhag that
>didn't exist in Talmudic or Geonic times, should we abandon it?
>
>Yitzhak

I will grant you that I should have chosen my words more carefully 
and written something like, "One need not wait to daven Maariv on the 
first night of Shavuous. There are poskim to rely on if one wants to 
daven early."

BTW, IIRC, it is the TAZ who says that the "custom" of not eating in 
the Succah on Shemini Atzeres is a "minhag boorius."  Yet, many of 
those who insist that one must wait until Tzeis to daven maariv based 
on the TAZ ignore what he says about eating in the Succah on SA.

YL
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