[Avodah] Fw: Partnership Minyanim by Aryeh and Dov Frimer

[Chanoch (Ken) Bloom]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 07:31:21PM -0500, Ira Tick wrote:
> Someone brought to my attention the Levush, who rules that women do not
> shecht out of fear of fainting.
> 
> It makes more sense to me that the Rema's ruling is echoing the
> Levush. Many decisions in halacha, even those canonized in the
> Codes, are often much more banal than is assumed by later-day
> analysis.

I'm not sure "echoing" is the right word. The Levush is a talmid of
the REMA, and the Levush is essentially contemporaneous with the
REMA's glosses on the Shulchan Aruch.

--Ken

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Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/