<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:13 PM, Micha Berger via Avodah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avodah@lists.aishdas.org" target="_blank">avodah@lists.aishdas.org</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The main reason for Ashekanzim to avoid qitniyos today is because if we<br>
start second-guessing minhagim in this day and age, the mimetic system<br>
will collapse and all of halakhah will fall apart.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Mehila, but aren't you being rather Chicken Little (or is your tongue somewhere in the direction of your cheek?)</div><div><br></div><div>We change minhagim all the time, for good and/or bad reasons and halacha hasn't fallen apart yet. Why is this minhag different from all other minhagim that people are so set against any change? </div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div></div>