[Avodah] yehoreg va-al yaavoer - churban habayit

[Eli Turkel]

<<There's a similar issue where the Roman's sent 2 emissaries to determine
whether the torah was biased against non-Jews.  They were taught all of
torah and found 2 examples but decided not to report.  Why didn't chazal
simply leave these out? IIRC R'Bleich explained that ziyuf hatora must
override pikuach nefesh even on this scale (it was a tape shiur I heard
years ago so....)>>

This is a chidush. Even with this this it applies only to actually changing
the Torah.
Zecharya was only afraid that people would misinterpret the action - a real
gezerah derabban. In fact there are many gezerot that something is
prohibited
because it might lead to mistakes in the halacha. Would one eliminate yaavor
ve-al yehoreg in all these gezerot?

One additional proof I forgot that the gemara in Gittin treats the Romans
more favorably
than the Jews is the strange story with the rich woman who continually send
her slave
to buy food in the market and he always comes back that the food is gone.
Both the slave and the mistress seem to be incredously stupid that after it
happens
once or twice that he isn't told to buy whatever is available. The
implication is again
that the Jews were so shortsighted that they could not conceive that the
next level of
food was already gone. This reinforces that the Gemara is continually
stressing the
shortsightedness and complacency of most of the Jews in the entire era.

-- 
Eli Turkel
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