[Avodah] Changing the tune in Lecha Dodi - Revisted

[Ben Waxman]

Well, I was trying to make a connection between the two.

1) According to RSZA, all minhagim have a source.
2) Ergo something without a source is not a minhag.

But that leaves the question, what is a source? You said a reliable source; 
well what is a reliable source? How far back, how universally accepted, does 
a book, a chiddush, whatever have to be before it can be accepted as a 
source for a minhag? If a source is simply "Rabbi X said it" than anything 
can be a source, right?

Ben
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> I'm confused. If this thread is about how to a define a "minhag", then 
> please continue discussing it. But if we are discussing what constitutes a 
> "source" for a something said recently, then any reliable source would be 
> a "source", right?
>
> Akiva Miller