[Avodah] Stability and Revision Pt. 1 Parallels

[Richard Wolpoe]

you make good poitns

the only other categoyI was going to add was "divine revelation" but of
course reation is a poitn too.

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KT
RRW

On 10/9/07, Sholom Simon <sholom at aishdas.org> wrote:
>
> I enjoyed your tri-partite division, and look forward to your next
> installment
>
> But I was wondering if there might be more categories.
>
> The one that stands out in my mind is "reactionism" -- i.e., in order to
> distinguish ourselves from others.  Eating hot foods on shabbos is an
> older instance.  A more modern one might be hiring a non-Jew to play music
> on shabbos -- which apparently used to be the custom for chasunes a while
> back (see S"A which expressly permits this) -- but is now sociologicall
> ossur as a reactino to when Reform started to introduce music to their
> prayer services.
>
> A quick note, too, on one of your categories:
>
> > Activism:
> ...
> > Goal:
> > To pursue a liberal or a libertarian or a libertine] agenda.  To promote
> > progressivism.  Maximise rights for the people.
>
> In halacha, activism goes both ways.  Certainly those involved in
> so-called "chumra of the month" types of communities, which sometimes
> spread to the rest of us.  (I can't help but wonder if women vis-a-vis
> parshas zachor might be of this variety -- but one can possibly think of
> others: requiring light boxes to examine lettuce, selling one's keilim for
> Pesach, etc.)
>
> > BEH I will follow up with Halachic parallels in the next post.
>
> I look forward
>
> -- Sholom
>
>


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