[Avodah] History of Havarah

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, December 21, 2006 6:50 pm, R Daniel Israel wrote:
: In this light I sometimes wonder if it is possible to say that the
: shift having occured, should we now change it?  This relates to
: your (RMB's) recent comments about minhagim.  In areas of minhag
: and sometimes even we often don't roll back a mesorah even when we
: find something funny about the origin....

Yes, I posted a number of times my belief that a mihag ta'us is one that is
shown to lead to wrong behavior rather than also including one whose basis was
found to be flawed and therefore exists for no good reason.

You just explained why I feel my question is more valid WRT sheva,
mile'eil-milera, ayin and ches, where it would be minhag vs din. In which
case, if we know it's not well grounded, do we have permission not to fulfill
Shema as per the gemara (and Rambam)? Isn't that clearly a ta'us?

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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