Ritual Customs - Minhagim

Yehudah vs. Galil Territories

Customs in Reading the Purim Story on Purim

Minhag haMedinah - Local Commercial Practice

Differentiating between Custom and Law: Eruvin 62b, 72a; Taanit 26b

Customs which are against the Law: Rosh HaShanah 15b; Bava Metzia 70a

Not changing one's personal custom: Megillah 22b

We don't change customs, because they may have been created to deal with specific circumstances that could recur: Beitzah 4b

In doing work on Erev Shabbat: Pesachim 50b

Folowing one's paternal custom where it is against the majority, and the father had a personal reason for practicing it: Pesachim 51a

The difficulty of establishing local custom when populations from different places settle in an area together: Bava Metzia 83b

"VeChen Ama Davar" - And so the nation speaks - Affirming Law: Pesachim 54a

Against creating sects with differing customs: Succah 43b [and see Rashi top of 44a]

One should not differ from the local custom, so as not to cause strife: Pesachim 50b-52a

Not differing from a local stringency, even if one knows it to be incorrect: Pesachim 50b-51b; Megillah 5b; Nedarim 15a

Not differing from a local stringency, in cases where differing will [not] cause local laxity: Pesachim 51a

Custom overrides Eliyahu the Prophet: Yevamos 102a (Regarding Type of Shoe for Chalitzah-Rite Severing Levirate Bond)

Going in accordance with the stringencies of one's original AND current locale: Pesachim 50a-52a

Where one travels from/to Israel to/from Bavel: Pesachim 51a

Above, where one plans to return to one's original locale: Pesachim 51a

Bavel is considered to be subservient to Israel in Customs: Pesachim 51a

The customs of the "Daughters of Israel": Niddah 5a, 14a

Forbidden Work on The 9th of Av: Berachot 17b, Pesachim 54b, Taanit 30b, Megillah 22b

Forbidden Work on The Day before Pesach: Pesachim 50a, 51b, 55a, 55b; Tos. Pesachim 14a #1

Bathing Two Brothers Together: Pesachim 51a

Walking in floppy, loose shoes on Shabbat: Pesachim 51a

Eating Di'Aytera - Milk from the Mouth of the Cow's Stomach: Pesachim 51a

The Customs in reciting the Torah's section about Tzitzit/The Exodus at night: Berachot 14b

Local Custom in selling non-working animals to Nochrim: Pesachim 53a

Eating Roasted Meat on Pesach Night, and devoting it to the Pesach Offering: Pesachim 53a-b

[Not] Lighting a Candle for Yom Kippur night, to prevent sexual relations: Pesachim 53b



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