Reply To: Family Not Traveling Together

I believe the burden of proof is on those who want to say that there [em]is[/em] such a minhag, not that there isn’t. Apparently no one else here has heard of such a thing.

My starting assumption was that there is no such minhag. However, knowing this person, and even if i didn’t simply mitzad being dan lekaf zechus, i don’t [either] think that his family simply made this up on their own. Therefore, the fact that they do this is to some extent a raya that such a minhag does exist, or at the very least it’s a raglayim ledavar. Thus, to simply and definitively claim without any factual basis that no such minhag exists seems to me very presumptuous.