[Avodah] Tzinius and the ILG

[Daniel Israel]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:06:03 -0700 Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> 
wrote:
>The third category is problematic. Why would Hashem allow a TYQ 
>problem bad enough for Chazal to see the need to assur it?

Without comment on what category different things we have been 
discussing fall under, let me suggest the following (actually, this 
seems clear to me, but I can't think of an explicit source).

Given that HKB"H created the world in a manner that is for our 
good, it is necessary that the proper way for us to act has to be 
clear to anyone who honestly looks.  Furthermore, since the Torah 
is the blueprint of that creation, everything we need to know in 
order to act properly must be in the Torah.  _But_, this does not 
necessarily imply that everything we need to do in order to act 
properly is contained in b'feirush mitzvos d'orraissa.  In fact, 
what we see is that HKB"H left open the possibility that someone 
who follows the taryag mitzvos strictly, but without going any 
further, can do things that he shouldn't do.  It's part of our role 
in the world to look at the Torah and figure out what else we need 
to do.  (This is loosely what the Ramchal talks about in the 
definition of chasidus.)  That may be on the personal level, but 
sometimes it can be on the communal level.

IOW, HKB"H left open some of these potential problems precisely so 
that chazal could see (based on Torah sources, but not purely 
halachic sources) what and how to fix things.  I would suggest that 
He did this as a chesed so that not only could we be partners in 
the physical creation, but also partners in the "creation" of 
halacha.

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Daniel M. Israel
dmi1 at cornell.edu