[Avodah] Minhag Avos and Minhag haMaqom

[Rich, Joel]

Some group named Machon Shilo raised the question of qitniyos in EY
bizman hazeh. Regardless of my opinion of their basic argument
(discussed on Areivim) I would be interested in a discussion on the
nature of minhag.


Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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The question that always bothered me is when (and why)  did the nature
change from primarily community based to family based? I say primarily
because IIRC the chatam sofer and R' Moshe allowed a ben Yeshiva to
change his minhag to that of the Yeshiva.

An ancillary question - we know the halacha of 2 batei dinim but why
would there have been 2 batei dinim in the town in the time of the
gemara - is it lchatchilla or bdieved?

KT
Joel Rich
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