- Bekavod HoRav. Many believe that the minhag not to learn on Nitel Nacht, and in the new year is just a Chasidic tradition is that true?
A. See question 5727 above. The חות יאיר in his sefer (ספר מקור חיים (או"ח קנ"ה, writes, not to learn on Nital night is the Minhag of the מהר"ל מפראג.. (About 180 years before the בעל שם טוב)
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman Horav, Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a