[Avodah] Mitsvat Sukkah is almost unique

[Richard Wolpoe]

On 10/17/07, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 09:42:41PM -0400, Richard Wolpoe wrote:
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> 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:


You were showing how the advent Zohar overturned normative Talmudic Halachah


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


Can we now blow Shofar on Shabbos as per the Rif -  Seeing how the Term
Yeshiva is used for every place where there is a Yeshiva?   The Hinuch makes
it optional to pick between the Rambam and the Rif on this matter. CAn we
NOW follow that Hinuch and pick and choose?

:    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?
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> 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.


is this a form of "Do as I say but not as I do?" In klalei p'sak ma'aseh Rav
trumps a meimra - see Tosafos in Bameh Tomnin.

 Bottom line The Gra's META message is:

> Given a halachah or minahg you can overturn it if you can back it up with
> Talmudic sources.:


And since you equated the GRA with a Rishon why can't we follow HIS METHOD?
After all he rejte the idea that he was bound by Minhag Yisrael or  the
consensu of poskim - which had been the medhot of Both Bet Yosef and Rema!

And Given:

   1. The Rosh had a read of the Gmara
   2. The poskim made it normative
   3. The minhag was to follow the poskim
   4. The Gra rejected the read
   5. The Gra rejected the Minhag
   6. What did the GRA seee in the OLD minhag - that was now in disuse -
   that failed to convince Bet Yosef?
   7. So -do people follow the Gra because he was GREATER than the Bet
   Yosef? If that were the case why didn't Bet Yosef say follow the Rambam as
   greater than the Rosh? It is pretty obvious that the Bet Yosef felt that the
   Rambam to be a bigger poseik!
   8. Halachah kerabbi Akiva machaveio v'LO meichaveirov.  What about R.
   Eliezer and the Tanur? Doesn't consensus trump Gadlus?

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