[Avodah] Interlocking the Fingers of the Right Hand with the Fingers of the Left Hand

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 01:57:19PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
> So the ban on smoking is...smoke?

No, a pesaq based on a pre-existing deOraisa and given current knowledge
about how hard it is to kick the habit once started, and how risky it
is accumulatively if one ch"v doesn't.

I would instead have asked if RAEngel eats qitniyos on Pesach. Or, if he
is Sepharadi (despite his surname), does he eat fish with milk?

There are many prohibitions that post-date chazal, on the minhag level.
We may not pasqen out of the Zohar (although those who don't wear tefillin
on ch"m might be), but the patterns used for handwashing neigl vasr and
before hamotzi are pretty widely observed; albeit as minhag.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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