[Avodah] Children at a Wedding

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From: "Joseph C. Kaplan" _jkaplan at tenzerlunin.com_ 
(mailto:jkaplan at tenzerlunin.com) 


>>I was somewhat behind on my Avodah reading and thus had the  opportunity 
to read the entire thread (to date) about children at a parent's  wedding, 
and my reaction, after reading all the posts was, in typical Jewish  fashion, 
a question: why should there be any minhag at all?  ....Wouldn't  it be 
better if the decision is based on what best for the members of this  
particular family?  <<
 
 
 

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Although I have given a number of reasons why children generally did not go 
 to their parents' weddings in old Europe, I would like to point out that I 
was  consistently careful to use the word "practice" and not "minhag" 
because I don't  think there really was a minhag in the same way you might refer 
to a minhag to  wear a gartel.  Minhag Yisrael kedin hu means you generally 
don't change a  minhag but this was not a "minhag" in that sense, it was 
just the accepted  practice.  I sympathize with the old practice but I actually 
 do agree that this should be decided on a case by case  basis.
 

--Toby Katz
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