[Avodah] R Tzadok-TSBP

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:45:00 -0400
Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:45pm IDT, Michael Makovi wrote:
> : Regarding post-modernism, as exemplified in Shapiro, Wyschogrod, etc.
> : my mind is still not entirely made up...

...

> For example, what difference does it make what Shapiro or Wyschogrod
> think of post-modernism compared to the people actually doing halakhah?
> Did you ever hear Rav Ovadiah say that he's deconstructing a text?

For the record, while I utterly reject this post-modernist stuff out of
hand, Shapiro, in an appendix to his "Studies in Maimonides and His
Interpreters", cites a number of passages of R. Y. Y. Weinberg where he
seems to take exactly this view of Brisker lomdus, that R. Haim's
interpretations of Rambam are not correct as a matter of original
intent, but that they are nevertheless valuable as brilliant hiddushe
Torah in their own right.  Once again, I do not understand this
position at all.

Yitzhak
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