Reply To: Controversy In Israel – Woman says Sheva Brachos

How do you prove a Mesorah – a Mesorah cannot be unwritten? Thousands of years of practice doesn’t constitute a Minhag?

Nope. Do we also have a “Mesorah” not to eat potatoes? We didn’t eat them for thousands of years.

I note that you are not disagreeing that we change mesorah on the whim of whomever is in charge.

Minhag is to do an action, or do it in a specific manner.

Doing something one way just because no one thought to ask the question is not a minhag or mesorah. In fact, from the SA who does not exclude Noshim, there is an implication that our mesorah is to allow Noshim to make the brocha.