[Avodah] Mistaken Minhagim?

[Zev Sero]

On 4/2/20 10:14 pm, Rich, Joel via Avodah wrote:
> In a recent piece on Torah Musings R’Gil Student wrote about R’C Pilaggi 
> mentioning minhagim which were incorrect but the Rabbis were unable to 
> stop them. Does anyone know the earliest example of such?

According to the Rosh, at least, the minhag of most (nowadays all) Chu"l 
communities saying tal umatar as if they were in Iraq is mistaken, and 
he tried his best to change it in Spain, but faced such massive 
opposition that he gave up and accepted the status quo.


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