RSRH,
Some people here tend to discredit my credentials as a follower of R. Hirsh’s TIDE
Hoe did this become a discussion about you?
So, to say that making a simchas bas is problematic because it is creating a new ritual is really to mistate the misframe the issue.
That’s fine, because that wasn’t really my point. I’m not arguing against the development of new minhagim, there’s a history to how all minhagim, even those based on d’var r’shus, developed.
We cannot fully understand anyone’s complex motivations. We can judge only based on the actions we can externally observe, and then only by objective standards of halacha
My point is precisely to dispute this argument. If we bury our heads in the sand and ignore the obvious fact that the simchat bat “ritual” was invented – not developed, but invented – to discredit chaza”l, then we are guilty of the same, through inaction.