[Avodah] Children at a Wedding

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 10:09:17PM -0500, T613K at aol.com wrote:
:                                       ..., 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...

Anyone have in mind a chiluq by which one could know which practices get
labeled "minhag"? My intuitive feel is similar to RnTK's, but the
contrarian in me is wondering... How do we know? Maybe they all are
minhagim, albeit some are minhagei shetus or ta'os. So, a formal chiluq
would be of help.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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