[Avodah] Sefer HaChinuch on why 2 weeks Nidah for a girl and only 1 for a boy

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From: Gershon Seif _gershonseif at yahoo.com_ (mailto:gershonseif at yahoo.com) 

>>Anyone  ever see what the Sefer HaChinuch writes about why women who give 
birth to a boy  are in Nidah for a week but for a girl it's 2 weeks?....

....The problem  is that he then quotes a Ramban and says that this is 
exactly what the Ramban is  saying too..... Are we left saying the Ramban got it 
wrong? Or he meant  something else and we don't understand? Or the chinuch had a 
different approach  to learning Ramban? <<


 
 
>>>>>
I just don't understand this whole tzimmes.   What's the big deal about 
saying Ramban might have been wrong about  something?  There are plenty of times 
that other meforshim disagree with  Ramban about this and that.
 
This particular question is moot anyway because no modern woman bleeds  for 
only a week after the birth of a baby.  The norm is several  weeks.
 
Some people think that if you say Chazal or Ramban or the Sefer Hachinuch  
were wrong about some scientific fact, then you are being disrespectful to  
them.  I was raised with a completely different understanding and a  different 
attitude.  I would add that if they did refer to the highest  standards of 
scientific knowledge of their own time, that is a siman that we,  too, should follow 
their example and apply the highest standards of scientific  knowledge of our 
time.  Who was it who said, "Chachma bagoyim  ta'amin"?  Not some modern 
maskil or Reform rabbi.



--Toby  Katz
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