[Avodah] Mitsvat Sukkah is almost unique

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 09:42:41PM -0400, Richard Wolpoe wrote:
:> 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.

: 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

Mah inyan shemittah eitzel har Sinai? We're talking about whether tum'ah
is inherently bad, and you ask about the Gra's authority to pasqen
differently than accepted norm. But since you asked:

Nu, he dug up an old minhag that was more mistabeir.

:    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?

Or, at least that his own opinion is equal in weight to that of any
rishon. That being mistabeir outweighs being nahug -- at least for the
individual who finds it more mistabeir. The Gra tried to keep his talmdim
from following suit on much of his distinct pesaqim.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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