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March 27, 2022 8:48 am at 8:48 am
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AviraDeArah
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Aboos; there is no halachik requirement but there IS a source, as you yourself admit that it’s a hiddur. Hiddurim have reasons and sources, and in this case, it was an almost universally observed minhag until the goyim outlawed it/haskalah made jews want to look less jewish.
Chasidim didn’t start the minhag by Ashkenazim or copy it from temanim. Litvishe and almost all other European groups of jews did it until the mid 1800s. The fact that our minhagim, though not found in gemara, were kept by temanim only serve to prove the universal language of torah, which transcends cultures and continents.