[Avodah] Niskatnu haDoros

[Rich, Joel]

If someone tries to reopen questions because they consider the
codification an ossification that runs against the health of halakhah,
they have to start by restoring the Jews who were capable of playing
with those higher stakes, of being the giants on whose shoulders we
stand.

And, to look at the same thing from a very different angle... If someone
could find a throwback, someone with the mesiras nefesh of R' Yehudah's
generaion who lived among R' Papa and Abyei (to cite the people who
coined "nisaqtnu hadoros), we would call that a BG gadol mimenu
bechokhmah uveminyan.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha
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Why is this "start" a requirement? Assumedly to "undo" the start of
codification, but philosophically I've always wondered why we didn't say
we'll follow the rules and let the chips fall where they may (i.e.
yiftach bdoro vs. declaring a need for a change due to yiftach)

KT
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