[Avodah] RMF Mattir Neder Gebrochts

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 05/02/2016 06:48 AM, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> I know I'm repeating myself; it just makes me wonder about the PT's
> theory. It is very likely the SA haRav is correct in timing, if not
> causality (it could be post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning) because
> the Besh"t ate keneidelach and yet chassidim two generations later --
> their generation -- did not. The PT holds it was an old minhag that is
> no longer applicable; but given those stories about the Besh"t, how old
> could the minhag have been?

It wasn't even a generational change.  The Alter Rebbe says it was only
"these last twenty years or more", i.e. within his own memory.


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                And if anyone should ask me the reason why I'm doing that
                I'll say "It's a Jewish thing; if you have a few minutes
                I'll explain it to you".