[Avodah] What is a minhag?

[Ben Waxman]

How do all the minhagim which are based on kabbalah fit into this 
definition? For example, staying up all night on Shavuot; how is that a 
seyag? Yet it has been accepted (?) by all communities, n'est pas?

Ben
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Micha Berger" <micha at aishdas.org>
> Could it be that a minhag (of RRW's type 2) is any [mutar] practice
> that is accepted by the community as a whole only if the purpose is
> a seyag or perishus? And any other communal practices are just that,
> communal practices -- with no bindingness?