“Brony, if there is an accepted Halochic practice in a community, if you want to question it, it is you who has to bring proofs to the contrary.”
no. ff you can’t justify your actions at even he most basic level (halacha l’moshe misinai/chok/some othr broad concept like kavod habriyos), you shouldn’t be doing them.
while i’m here, let me poll the crowd for sources for to two practices that i have stopped doing for lack thereof: lifting pinky toward torah during hagbah (fun fact: you should wait until you see the words side before you say vizos hatorah, for rather obvious reasons) and lifting your posterior up (aka “standing”) when saying “baruch sh’achalnu…”. Haven’t found them, and no longer do them. come at me bro.