I forgot to ping you to my discussion of the tradition mentioned in Mark 7, 1-13. I looked it up on my link to the parallel Greek NT, and the word was not invariably translated as “tradition.”
http://www.greeknewtestament.com/B41C007.htm
As you can see for yourself, the word for tradition was also translated by some as “rules of the ancients” or “old laws.”
That's what tradition is...
Tradition works for me...