Reply To: Minhag Shopping

old man

A luach is a wonderful tool for people who dont know their mesora. If you have a mesora you don’t need the luach. It is precisely the poorly educated mispallelim who think luachs were passed down Misinai, and use it to argue with the Rav regarding the “proper” thing to say.

Incidentally, this story took place in the U.S. where the standard Luach is the Ezras Torah luach which says “Some have the custom that during the first twelve days of Nissan…” i.e. and some do not!

(You made this same mistake regarding Sholem Aleichem at the seder, which again, is not mentioned in the Ezras Torah luach nor in any of 35(!!) Hagadahs I checked over Pesach.)

Bottom line If you have a minhag to say it.. then say it.

If not… why start?

If you don’t know…. You have 3 options 1)Ask people who may know your family minhag: cousins, landsman, books on minhagim etc 2) Ask your Rav what to do or adopt your kehillas minhag if you and they have one (arguably this could be #1) or 3) Do what the luach says