[Avodah] Age of "Ancient" Minhagim

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 19:35:49 GMT
"kennethgmiller at juno.com" <kennethgmiller at juno.com> wrote:

> In the thread "Woman reading a ketuba", R"n Toby Katz wrote:
> > Well as you know, I do not look kindly on ancient minhagim
> > that are less than thirty years old. Get back to me when

...

> I too don't like the idea that certain recent "minhagim" are perceived as being ancient. But that is the reality, and it won't change easily.

The widespread custom of the bride and groom not seeing each other for
the week before the wedding is apparently of quite recent origin.

Yitzhak
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