[Avodah] "Ancient" Minhagim

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 05:55:43 -0500
Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 01:10:22AM -0500, Yitzhak Grossman wrote:
> :                             and the implication of Tosafos is that they
> : are reinterpreting the Sugya to justify the Minhag to the contrary.
> 
> The following two say the same substance but IMHO betray very different
> attitudes toward mesorah.
> 
> Do Tosafos reinterpret a sugyah to justify a minhag?
> or
> Do they realize by looking at how halakhah was practiced (and assuming
> the default that practice is in line with halakhah) that the gemara
> couldn't have meant what it seems to?

I merely meant that they proposed an interpretation different from the
obvious one, and that they would apparently not have done so without
the pressure of the need to justify the prevailing custom.

Yitzhak
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