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

[Allan Engel]

IIRC, the issur of kitniyos emerged due to practical concerns of chometz
contamination, and was therefore a chumra on an existing issur, rather than
an entirely new one.

If no evidence exists of danger of interlocking fingers, and no mesora of
danger through Torah SheBaal Peh (unlike, for example, fish and meat) it's
surely a brand new prohibition?

Also, the original article states:
"The Ben Ish Hai ...cites this *Halacha* in the name of the Arizal"

Halocho, not minhag.



On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> wrote:

> So the ban on smoking is...smoke?
>>>
>>
>  No, a pesaq based on a pre-existing deOraisa and given current knowledge
>>
>
> So's this.  If interlocking the fingers is dangerous, and there's an issur
> on doing dangerous things, then it would follow that an issur is justified.
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