[Avodah] tefillin on chol hamoed

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 10/11/16 06:56, Isaac Balbin via Avodah wrote:
> I wish I could recall the particular Minhag but Mori V'Rabbi Rav Hershel
> Schachter did once pasken to me that a minhag that is simply Shtus,
> has no status and one should abandon it as a mistake. In some cases
> there could be issurim involved in keeping the minhag! This wasn't a
> wide spread world accepted minhag.

That there is such a thing as minhag shtus is an explicit Tosfos on the 
first amud of Bava Basra (dh Bigvil).  In general, to be binding a 
minhag must have been established with the consent of a talmid chacham; 
if it just arose organically it's not a minhag.

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