[Avodah] Must we agree with the Torah?

[Daniel M. Israel]

On Aug 8, 2013, at 2:51 PM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
> RMYG opened asking about lo sachmod eishes rei'ekha:
>> R' Elazar ben Azarya sad that a person should not say, "I don't want to wear Shaatnez,"
>> rather he should say, "I want to, but my father in heaven decreed upon
>> me that I can not!"?
> 
> I replied:
> : What does R' Yisrael Salanter do? He makes a chiluq between kibush hayeitzer,
> : doing the right thing despite taavos otherwise, and tiqun hayeitzer, which
> : is getting the taavos in line. (And primarily a consequence of the hergel
> : set up by kibush).

I'm missing a step in your comment.  How does RYS's chiluk answer the question?  REBA seems to be explicitly rejecting tiqun hayeitzer as you have defined it.  (I might, consequently, define it differently, but that would not address the question at hand.)

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Daniel M. Israel
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