[Avodah] kitnoyot

[Lisa Liel via Avodah]

On 4/6/2017 8:54 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 08:03:23PM +0300, Lisa Liel wrote:
>: WADR, while you're entitled, of course, to think this, the concept
>: of mimetics does not exist in halakha, and cannot therefore be
>: determinative.

> Puq chazi mah ama devar.  -Hillel
> Al teshanu minhag avoseikhem.  -Abayei
>
> It's also impossible to learn much AhS (or even MB) without encoutnering
> cases where the savara-ly weaker pesaq is supported because it's the
> accepted ruling in practice.

I'm pretty sure that's R' Yosei and not Abayei, but either way, puq chazi
is only when there's a doubt about the halakha. Not a principle that
we have to act on the basis of what other people are doing. An idea
that would enshrine errors and make fixing errors virtually impossible.

Lisa