[Avodah] Minhag Shtus

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 15/11/16 17:43, Prof. Levine via Avodah wrote:
> 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."

That was his opinion.  He was unaware that there *is* such a basis, with 
rabbinic backing.  Therefore it *is* a genuine minhag.  The basis is the 
opinion that this psak in the gemara is not operative.


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