[Avodah] minhagim of a chupa

[Eli Turkel]

<<On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 09:20:57AM +0300, Eli Turkel wrote:
: Which leads to my question: Do we say "lo plug" on minhagim especially
: those that seems to have arisen by themselves.

Are there any other kind?
If the minhag didn't arise on its own, wouldn't it be a taqanah? >>

The connection between minhag and takkanah is not always clear.
Many takkanot started out as minhagim. The various laws of nidah and
zava are quoted as
"bnot yisrael hechimiru al atzman" yet today no one would call it a minhag.

Among minhagim there are some that started among the people and some
that were started by some Gadol.
So if it started by some rabbis without being a formal takkanah I
could see a possibility of "lo plug"
IMHO if it started among the people it is less clear that "lo plug" applied.
I suggested as a possibility that this might be the argument among
poskim concerning kitniyot whose origins are very murky.

BTW a question I have asked many without a real answer (I may have
asked it on list) is when do we apply "lo plug" and when not.
I have not found any consistent pattern. One famous case is lighting
candles on yom tov evening in which the mother of the Sma made the
bracha and then lit while MA says "lo plug" from shabbat.



-- 
Eli Turkel