[Avodah] Minhag Yisroel

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, October 31, 2007 9:35 am, R Jonathan Baker wrote:
: Or is it that the MOTHERS teach the daughters Torah, in which case
: they
: too are making the diyuk that Micha and I see in the text - it's not
: the
: FATHERS, it's the MOTHERS.

RJJB and I are making very different diyuqim.

"Chakhamim tzivu" is far from common, when compared to "chayav" or
"assur", and even less common than "tiqnu". I therefore do not make
RnCL's assumption that there is an actual lav deRabbanan involved in a
father teaching his daughters Torah. Otherwise, why the rare language?

So then why "tzivu"? Because they commanded us dads not to do
something stupid. Not qua "vetzivanu" (via proxy) but as simply out of
concern for the girl.

I do not see how the rationale of the content being tiflus would make
this an inyan gavra rather than cheftza, and therefore don't see a
reason for RJJB's diyuq, actually. (He must be more of a "formal
process" man than I.)

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha

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