[Avodah] FW: R Tzadok-TSBP

[david guttmann]

R.Michael Makovi writes -

 >I cannot imagine the value of learning that does not lead to practical
halakhah.

I agree with you and with much of the rest you write about not being able to
accept appologetics etc... And I share your sentiment about Tosafot vs
others who shun dialectics. I think though not wanting to pasken for others
is not the same as not learning lema'asseh. I would not be surprised if R.
Chaim followed his conclusions personally while not wanting to pasken for
others against the SA. SA is after all the accepted possek for most people
and R. Chaim had no interest in upsetting that understanding by showing that
he paskened otherwise thus weakening the SA's authority for those who needed
it because they could not come to their own conclusions correctly. 
 

David Guttmann
 
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