On vulgar customs

(Thanks to WM) Hamra bar H. Yitshak Yousup chose wrong words to perpetuate the cause of Sephardic identity. Looks like some "conformists" amongst Sephardic young men picked up some ancient Ashkenazic wedding customs. So this gentleman decides to score some Moroccan votes to declare these customs as "vulgar". He got ticked off by the custom of Yichud Shtibl, of holding hands after the Chuppah and some other behaviors that may or may not qualify as "customs".

Holding hands after the Chuppah is universal amongst almost all Ashkenazic communities and goes back as long as the wedding ceremony itself. A select few communities don't practice it, but I suspect its because of being uninformed and out of misplaced shame; otherwise the custom is universal even amongst the frummest chassidim who will shave the poor bride to oblivion and will maintain mechitza even by mitzva tantz. It was modest enough for Pney Yehoshua, for Ktsos, probably for Rabeinu Tam - and likely too for Baal Shem Tov, for the heilige Ruzhiner and for Tzanzer Ruv, all of whose memory shall be blessed. And here comes a pere odom who didn't learn and didn't listen and declares this custom as vulgar ?

If all the concert ban signers had any anatomy at all, they would instead put him in Herem until he personally apologizes to every human dead or alive whose wedding went according to a thousand year old rite. But I guess מכה בסתר is easier and poor Lipa is a juicier target then some wannabe frenk ...