“You are being ????? ??”? ?? ????????, and at the same time “
“arguing on all of those you mentioned above who do justify it.”
i’m not at all arguing on those who justify it. I’m sorry if I wasnt clear.
As to being “????? ??”? ?? ????????” that I guess I was (though the hamon am, not the rabbonim) However I said it as a possibility. I dotn know why people stopped it. neither do any of the Acharonim many offer various possibilities none of which are convincing.
there are many practices which we no longer practice without a clear guideline as to when and why it was stopped. Parah Aduma is one that ahs been well written about. Techeiles is another. One of my own questions is Tzaraas. (Ive always wondered who the first person who got a white mark on his skin and decided he wasnt going to a kohein). We dont know why/when but due to our long galus there are many practices that have been changed abandoned or forgotten. When we can we justify them we do
“The reason the Gr”a tried to reinstitute it was because he disagreed with the reasons mentioned (or held the reason no longer applies), and since minhag does not trump halachah, held we should duchan.”
Ah but then he abandoned his project….
If a person told you he had a minhag not to wear tefilin. you told him there is no such minhag you need to wear tefilin. He accepts buys tefilin, and before can wear it they get destroyed r”l. Would you say oh I guess you shoudlnt wear tefilin. Halacha doesnt get decided by fires in heaven (the Gr”a of all people would agree)