[Avodah] Tzinius and the ILG

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 07:44:06PM -0500, Zvi Lampel wrote:
> How about "when society evolves to the point that a rule MUST be
> defined legally, rather than a set of values given for people to
> decide situationally," because too many people became ineffificent in
> situational judgment, and therefore formal, more blanket rules were deemed
> necessary? I think this is a traditional approach. (Compare Rambam re:
> R' Yose HaGlili and poultry with milk, as I think you've recently pointed
> out; and Rambam on why the nusach of Shemoneh Essray was standardized.)

The difference between my suggestion and yours is whether Chazal protected
TYQ with specific dinim derabbanan whenever they found a way to do so,
or whenever they found a need to do so (and found a way to).

I would not argue that they passed dinim when there was a need. I am
not sure they necessarily waited for the problem to become acute before
acting. Do you have reason to assert this?

-mi