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<<and no written codification of 3 (until very late? anywhere?)>><BR>
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I think that Rav B Forst's Artscroll Kashrus book cites Rabbeinu Yerucham as the earliest source for 3 hours.<BR>
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In my parents-in-law's family (the Posens), the ladies wait 3 hours in accordance with the family custom, but the men are stringent and wait 6 hours. My wife is quite grateful for the p'sak we received permitting her to keep up with the 3 hour custom, even though I, as a Litvak, wait 6 hours.<BR>
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Interestingly, Rav Schach is quoted in the first volume of Shorshei Minhag Ashkenaz as saying that a Yekke should not be "machmir" and wait 6 hours, while I have seen Rav Elyashiv quoted somewhere as disagreeing. I suppose the question is whether minhag trumps strict halacha. For instance, no gebrokts on Pesach was, presumably, originally adopted as a chumra, but is now exclusively a function of minhag (with the exception of one Rabbi I know of in Melbourne who has not a drop of chassidic blood in him but took on "no gebrokts" as a chumra).<BR>
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