[Avodah] Out-of-Bounds? 3 Ending a Taanis at Sundown

[Zev Sero]

rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:
> An unnamed collegue wrote this. I am "snipping" it with his permission
> 
>> FWIW, when congregants ask me when a minor fast day "ends," I always
>> give them the time of sundown. The popular custom of "tzeit" strikes me
>> as a burdensome and pointless chumra.
> 
> Is this in-bounds because the Aruch Hashulchan indeed does say this
> 
> Or
> 
> Is this out-of-bounds since Tur, SA, Rema and AFAIK the majority of
> posqim require Tzeis - And therefore this would be a kind of "poreish
> min hatzibbur"?

I suppose he's entitled to follow his da'as yochid, since it's an issur
derabbanan.   But he is *not* entitled to call the position of the
majority of poskim "burdensome and pointless"!

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