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

[Allan Engel]

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> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:39 AM, Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer <rygb at aishdas.org
> > wrote: you often see Catholic priests holding their hands in that manner
> - ha'lo davar hu.


Do any of the poskim who bring this down as halocho offer this reason?
Surely that would come under the heading of Bechukoseihem L*o Seileichu* or
something similar, rather than Sakono?

In any event, I'm not sure anyone has addressed my original query, by what
right or mechanism can new Issurim be enacted after Ravina and Rav Ashi? If
there is no source in the Torah, Mishna or Gemoro, why doesn't it transgress
the prohibition against adding Mitsvos? (One could also ask the same
question about the Tzavo'o of Reb Yehuda Hechosid.)

The Rambam in Hilchos Deos has a long list of things to avoid because of
Sakono. I don't think I am crossing any theological red lines by suggesting
that they were included in the Yad because they were the accepted medical
wisdom at the time, rather than a received tradition (I'm sure that's what R
Avrohom ben HaRambam would say!). I might be wrong, but I don't think anyone
today prohibits eating truffles or mushrooms because of that Rambam.
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