Ritual Customs - Minhagim
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Yehudah vs. Galil Territories
Customs in Reading the Purim Story on Purim
Minhag haMedinah - Local Commercial Practice
Power of Customs
Differentiating between Custom and Law: Eruvin 62b, 72a; Taanit 26b
Customs which are against the Law: Rosh HaShanah 15b; Bava Metzia 70a
Not changing one's personal custom: Megillah 22b
We don't change customs, because they may have been created to deal with specific circumstances that could recur: Beitzah 4b
Paternal Customs
In doing work on
Erev Shabbat
: Pesachim 50b
Folowing one's paternal custom where it is against the majority, and the father had a personal reason for practicing it: Pesachim 51a
Local Custom
The difficulty of establishing local custom when populations from different places settle in an area together: Bava Metzia 83b
"VeChen Ama Davar" - And so the nation speaks - Affirming Law: Pesachim 54a
Against creating sects with differing customs: Succah 43b [and see Rashi top of 44a]
One should not differ from the local custom, so as not to cause strife: Pesachim 50b-52a
Not differing from a local stringency, even if one knows it to be incorrect: Pesachim 50b-51b; Megillah 5b; Nedarim 15a
Not differing from a local stringency, in cases where differing will [not] cause local laxity: Pesachim 51a
Custom overrides Eliyahu the Prophet: Yevamos 102a (Regarding Type of Shoe for
Chalitzah-Rite Severing Levirate Bond
)
Going in accordance with the stringencies of one's original AND current locale: Pesachim 50a-52a
Where one travels from/to Israel to/from Bavel: Pesachim 51a
Above, where one plans to return to one's original locale: Pesachim 51a
Bavel is considered to be subservient to Israel
in Customs: Pesachim 51a
The customs of the "Daughters of Israel": Niddah 5a, 14a
Specific Legal Issues which vary with Local Customs
Forbidden Work on
The 9th of Av
: Berachot 17b, Pesachim 54b, Taanit 30b, Megillah 22b
Forbidden Work on
The Day before Pesach
: Pesachim 50a, 51b, 55a, 55b; Tos. Pesachim 14a #1
Bathing Two Brothers Together
: Pesachim 51a
Walking in floppy, loose shoes on Shabbat
: Pesachim 51a
Eating
Di'Aytera - Milk from the Mouth of the Cow's Stomach
: Pesachim 51a
The Customs in reciting the Torah's section about
Tzitzit
/
The Exodus
at night: Berachot 14b
Local Custom in
selling non-working animals to Nochrim
: Pesachim 53a
Eating Roasted Meat on
Pesach Night
, and devoting it to the Pesach Offering: Pesachim 53a-b
[Not] Lighting a Candle for Yom Kippur night, to prevent sexual relations
: Pesachim 53b
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