[Avodah] halachic intuition - Disclaimer!

[Richard Wolpoe]

On 9/7/07, Richard Wolpoe <rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Re: contamination it is bovious that most of Hazal were heavily influenced
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I didn't mean to say C"vS that Hazal's Torah stemmed from Greco-Roman
sources.

Aderabba, I  was trying to say DESPITE being well-informed on Greek culture
that there was NOT a heave dose of Torah Contamination!  [and by extension
secular knowledge does not necessarily passel our unconscious Torah values]

But there was a heavy dose of Hellenistic knowledgee in their heads

Illustrations of Hazal and Greek culture:

There  is a drash IN TB Lulav Hagazul re: the word Hadar - i.e. it refers to
WATER as per the Greek Hydra,

Plus Hazal  treated Greek differently than other alien tongues WRT kisvei
Kodesh.

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The appeal of RSR Hirsch and of Westen European Rabbnim in general is that
here in America w/o a ghetto- we need values that work well in THIS mileu!
The Eastern European model imho was too organized around a ghetto society
and I feel it does not harmonize well with USA's society.

Hazal seemed toharmonize Judaism with their society - and that includes
sometimes vigrous opposition when needed!   But if Rabbinic leaders are
CLUELESS about THEIR society and long nostrlgically for another society they
will imho not deal realistically with the current milieu. Hence  imho the
weakness of RSBY's  attitude emerging from the cave. If RSBY emerged in
Tzefas  at the time of the ARizal perhaps he would have been less
"bothered".



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