R.T wrote:
I read that it’s mekor is a Takana of the Vaad Arbaa Kehilot a few hundered years ago in Eastern Europe and that the Takana is still in force today.
I have this book,”Pinkas Va’ad Arba Ha’aratzot 5341-5525 (1581-1765)” (not kehilot) by Yisroel Halperin, edited by Yisrael Bar Tal and published by Mosad Bialik. Please document your claim, otherwise I will consider it manipulatively false. I have read this book cover to cover and nowhere is this alleged takana mentioned. Prove me wrong and I will retract.