[Avodah] Horaas Shaah

[Michael Kopinsky]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:41:19AM -0500, Richard Wolpoe wrote:
> : AIUI, Rav Schwab shifted, too. Originally he thought it was a hora'as
> sho'oh
> : but later accepted TIDE as a lechatchila.
>
> Original R' Schwab thought it was lechat-chilah. Then he asked R' Barukh
> Ber if he should learn full time, or follow mussar avikha and TIDE. RBBL
> was the one who convinced him that TIDE was a hora'as sha'ah. (RBBL's
> argument is found in Birkas Shemu'el.)
>
> Clearly RBBL didn't know German, and little of RSRH's writings were
> available in Hebrew.
>

But Rav Schwab did know German, and was very familiar with RSRH's writings,
and was apparently convinced by RBBL's arguments.

KT,
Michael
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