[Avodah] k'daas moshe v'yisrael; validity of ketubah contracts

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:14:18AM -0700, harveybenton at yahoo.com wrote:
: DAAS MOSHE: If someone says "k'daas moshe v'yisrael" what does that
: mean?...

It means he erred. The word is "das Moshe", meaning the rite
established by Moshe. No ayin, so it has nothing to do with what Moshe
would have thought.

It means that even if MRAH never learned the details of what R' Aqiva
taught, what R' Aqiva and R' Aqiva Eiger taught is a development of the
system given to Moshe. (And FWIW, Rashi says that story is about something
Moshe later learned during the 40 days. I would note that the ideas R'
Aqiva taught were given to Moshe at Sinai -- via that very vision of
seeing R' Aqiva later teaching them! But that's not the lesson usually
taken from that gemara, and not what I mean here.)

: V'YISRAEL: daas yisrael...

Das Moshe is the halakhah, das Yisrael is minhag.

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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