[Avodah] wearing tzitzit outside

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 06:24:54PM +0300, Moshe Feldman wrote:
: "D&E-H Bannett" dbnet at zahav.net.il wrote that the contradiction between the
: MB and CC's actual practice derives from the fact that the CC's talmidim
: wrote parts of the MB.
: 
: We have discussed this issue in the past.  Here are some snippets:
...

While I agree with the basic notion, I am not sure that it's the source
of most contradictions. After all, his talmidim had more opportunity to
learn what the CC actually practiced far better than any researcher
exploring the discrepencies.

Rather (again, as discussed in the past), I like RSM's explanation based
on the haqdamah -- the MB gave you which opinion was theoretically
superior, not which is halakhah.

IMHO, the difference is that halakhah is determined by puq chazi mai amar
devar; minhag and common practice may push us to go with a theoretically
sound but "2nd best sevara" choice.

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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