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<font size="3"><div class="im">At 11:26 AM 12/19/2011, Micha Berger wrote:<br>
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Do you celebrate Carnivale on the 15th of Adar? Or did your children<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:47, Prof. Levine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:llevine@stevens.edu">llevine@stevens.edu</a>></span> wrote:</blockquote></div>
I must admit that you have lost me in much of what you wrote. <br><br></font></div></blockquote><div> [ nipped] <br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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To the best of my knowledge Shlissel Challah was something that was not
done by non-Chassidic Jews until Yahadus became Chassidized. I
certainly never have had anything to do with it. I am sure that it
was not practices by RSRH's wife. <br><br>
YL</font></div></blockquote><div><br>Are Frankfurt Jews the only ones allowed to create minhagim? <br><br>RMB's reference above was to the origin of costumes for Purim. There is a case to be made that it was borrowed from carnivale.<br>
<br>Saul<br></div></div></div>