[Avodah] Mitsvat Sukkah is almost unique

[Richard Wolpoe]

On 10/17/07, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:41:31AM -0400, Elliott Shevin wrote:
> : ... As an aside, tumah is not intrinsically a bad thing....
>
> I think that's a difference between nigleh and nistar.
>
> According to the gemara, you have to wash neigl vasser before tefilah.
> According to the Zohar, and this made it into halakhah pesuqah (outside
> of Teiman), one is supposed to wash as soon as possible. Tum'ah is
> transformed from something that contradicts certain mitzvos to something
> inherently wrong and to be minimized.
>
> Tir'u baTov!
> -Micha
>
> --
> Micha Berger


Questions:

   1. How did the Gra restore the use of 2 matzos at the Seder based upon
   the peshat of  Gmara when the Halachic trend  as to use 3?  Certainly Rema
   would follow Tosafos and Rosh but even  the Beis Yosef rejects Rambam and
   Rif because the world Minhag in his day was to use 3 as per Tso. and Rosh
   2. Bottom line: Isn't the Gra positing that we may ALWAYS go back to
   the Gmara and current  Halchic norms even if based upon Tradition or poskim?

.[FWIW Kaf hachayyim mentions this GRA and reports it as "dimissed" by
"acharonim"]

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