[Avodah] Minhag Shtus

[Prof. Levine via Avodah]

At 05:14 PM 11/15/2016, Zev Sero wrote:
>On 15/11/16 16:37, Prof. Levine via Avodah wrote:
>>I distinctly remember when R. Avigdor Miller learned the gemara that
>>says that one does not make a bracha on the succah on Shemini Atzeres,
>>but one should eat in the succah on ST. A fellow who was at the shiur
>>raised his hand and said,  "What about the minhag to not eat in the
>>succah on ST?"  R Miller responded categorically,  "There is no such
>>minhag!" The fellow was taken aback and again asked the same question,
>>and the response was the same.
>
>There clearly *is* such a minhag.  That he was unaware of it doesn't 
>change that fact.  aiui those who follow it hold, and have a 
>tradition, that the halacha is not like that psak (of the rabanan sevora'i).

He knew that some people do not eat in the succah on ST.  His point 
was that there is no basis for not eating in the succah on ST in 
chutz l'aretz.  This is what he meant when he said, "There is no such minhag."

YL 
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