[Avodah] The Singular Way of Saying Kaddish

[Dov Kaiser]

>> Please do not say "hundreds of years." This is a (mistaken) custom that
>> is less than 200 years old.
 
>Really? Less than 200 years? When is it first mentioned?
 
I have joined this discussion late, so this might already have been raised, but I recently heard R. Herschel Schacter say in an audio shiur that the minhag of everything saying kaddish together was introduced by R. Akiva Eiger during a cholera epidemic, when there were so many mourners. RHS then said that German and Polish rabbanim argued about whether to continue the new custom - the former said no and the latter said yes. If RHS is correct, R. Mandel would be correct that the custom is no more than 200 years old.
 
Kol tuv,
Dov Kaiser
 		 	   		  
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