<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 11, 2007 11:48 AM, David Riceman <<a href="mailto:driceman@att.net">driceman@att.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Moshe Y. Gluck wrote:<br>> Do we have any idea how fast this Minhag spread? Maybe it took a long<br>> time.<br>> Besides, there are many Minhagim, I believe, based on the Zohar which people<br>
> found out about, somehow, sometime.<br></div>But it's not a minhag, it's a halacha. If one may wear tefillin on Hol<br>HaMoed then one must.<br><br>David Riceman<br></blockquote></div><br clear="all">The Zohar says one MAY NOT wear Tefilin on Hol Hamo'ed
<br><br>However see the Ikkar Tos. YT at the end of mo'ed katan fora a completely non-kabbalistic argument for not wearing Tefilin on Hol Hamo'ed. <br><br>See Dr. Ya'akov Katz's sefer on halachah and Kabablah
<br><br>See Menachem Elon's work on Halachah. There are MANY types of minhaggim. ! kind of minhag is the minhag to follow 1 poseik over another. [e.g. it is the Ashknezic MINHAG to follow pskim who require tefilin on Hulo shel mo'ed, or it is the Ashknezic Minhag to follow the poskim who require salting meat for a full hour except behsa'as hadechak]
<br><br>See Kaf hachayyim on Brachos that are questionable 'sfeik brachos l'hakeil. He specifically states that saying an extra bracha basesd upon one's minhag [e.g. minhag ashkenaz to say 2 brachos on Tefillin, or a bracha on Hallel for Rosh Hodesh etc.] does NOT constitute a case of s'feik brachos lehakeil In this sense Minhag means one's shita or one's community's shita.
<br><br><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com</a><br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>