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

[Daniel Israel]

On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:15:41 -0700 Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> 
wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:38:29 -0500, RRW 
><rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com> wrote:
>: The Rambam et. al. seem to be pretty sure that NO poseik after 
>: the Gemara is absolute...
>
>The Rambam holds that no poseiq after the gemara was accepted by
>everyone, and therefore no subsequent poseiq is absolute. However, 
>he wasn't alive to see people study SA and Mappah for their 
semichah. 
>He could have been theoretically right, but pragmatically get 
>different results for today.

Rambam might also, arguably, have concluded differently if he knew 
there would be a case of a real musmach, davka according to his 
shita...

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Daniel M. Israel
dmi1 at cornell.edu