[Avodah] RSZA on kiniyot

[Eli Turkel via Avodah]

<<: RSZA says the minhag is not to use cottonseed oil on Pesach (mimetic -
who
: determines this minhag?)

Well, if it's mimetic, you just watch what people do. And if so, RSZA's
statement is descriptive, not descriptive. As in: Lemaaseh, people are
nohagim not to use cottonseed oil on Pesach.
...
Sevara aside, minhag is whatever is the accepted practice. >>

The question is "whose minhag". RSZA is stating what he saw. In my area of
New York
everyone used cottenseed oil.

I recently saw a discussion of women saying kaddish. After a lengthy
discussion the author concludes
that the minhag is for women not to say kaddish. Well in almost all the
shuls in my town women do say kaddish.

I understand that even the Rama in SA in quoting minhag means Polish
(Krakow) minhag and many other existing minhagim in Russia, or Italy were
ignored.
Similar things in the Sefardi communities. There are several cases that ROY
opposes Morrocan customs as being against (sefardi) halacha but are
heatedly defended by Moroccan rabbis.

-- 
Eli Turkel
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