[Avodah] Waiting to Daven Maariv on Shavuous

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Mon, 18 May 2009 08:07:35 -0400
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
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