[Avodah] minhag avos

[Arie Folger]

RRW wrote:

> AIUI, BY used Zohar as a machria between the 2 camps.
The BY thought so, based on his uncle's teshuvah, but it turns out his
uncle was wrong. The Zohar had no influence in this matter on either
Ashkenazim or Sefardim, until the days of the Gra and the 'Hassidim;
they did change their minhag on account of teh Zohar.

> The argument in favor of wearing is spearheaded by the Rosh largely
> based upon a Yerushalmi

Regarding the Yerushalmi part, see below.

> What is true about minhag avos aspect appears to be the following
<SNIP>
> + As per BY Sephardim used to follow Rosh. They abandoned this due to Zohar

But that is demonstrably incorrect. The Meiri and others testified
about how Sefardim never followed the Rosh in this matter. The BY
based himself on a teshuvah by his uncle, and the uncle seems not to
have had access to the earlier manuscripts, so he thought that
Sefardim changed on account of the Zohar.

And by the way, as I already pointed out. here, we have a weird case
of Ashkenazim really relying on the Bavli tradition (which is not
clear in the Talmud Bavli, but can be gleaned from a diyuq) and
Sefardim from the EY minhag (which is not clearly stated in the
Yerushalmi, but can again be gleaned from a diyuq).

Source: lecture by R'J.J.Schachter on YUTorah.org.
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/728404/Rabbi_Dr._Jacob_J_Schacter/Tefillin_on_Cholo_shel_Moed

Caveat: I did not retrace the sources, I merely listened to RJJS'
presentation and assumed that he correctly read and interpreted the
sources.
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