[Avodah] Z'man Simchaseinu

[Jonathan Baker]

I have written a truly wonderful reconciliation of my and Rabbi Wolpoe's
position, but an Avodah post is too small to contain it.  

Therefore, I posted it here: 
http://thanbook.blogspot.com/2007/10/zman-simchaseinu-3a.html

Summary: the Bikkurim passage points to the construction of the Temple
and links it to Simcha, the Haggadah takes that to imply that the culmination
of the Exodus is the construction of the Temple - see Dayeinu.  Thus we
can say that the Torah hints to the construction of the Temple as the
defined Time of Simcha.

Also, there's a better way to define the parallelism of the three Zmanim.

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