Shopping613,
1. Minhag Yisrael is not about Rabbonim coming together and initiating something, as was suggested before (that would be in the realm of a takana), but rather it is organically developed over time by a larger group of Torah-following Jews. There is no exact number given in halacha for the amount of people involved in order to get the status of a minhag. Certainly a whole town’s involvement would create a ‘minhag’ in that town, but beyond that the parameters are not ‘black and white’ and must be determined by the Posek, which leads into…
2. Of course this issue, like any other significant one that you are not sure about, should be brought before your Rav. I am merely responding to the dayos of others that were posted on this thread with my own humble daas, trying to bring out points that I think help clarify the full picture of this ‘sugya’.
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