[Avodah] Apikores?

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Nov 22, 2007 11:57 AM, Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> wrote:

>
>
> Because now we know better.  Many rishonim lived before the discovery
> of the Zohar, and all lived before the AriZal and the Baal Shem Tov,
> so they were missing information.  The AriZal was taught by Eliyahu
> Hanavi, and the Baal Shem Tov by Achiyah Hashiloni, and therefore knew
> things that had been completely forgotten in previous generations.
>
> --
> Zev Sero
>

Using this logic - why don't we NOW pronounce ivrith in a manner consistent
with the Teimanim since we NOW KNOW BETTER how to really pronounce Hebrew
with Ayyin Het, etc.?  I say this because A rabbinical collleague posed this
to me, b'oso haloashon! that since we NOW KNOW BETTER we cannot rely on
"minhag Avos/t/th" in the face of much greater knowledge in Hebrew
annunciation.

When we defer to earlier sources we invoke  "niskatnu!"
When we reject earlier sources we  calim to know better.
in the mater of Hashkafa how do we know better?

There is a machlokes RambaM and RambaN re: the reason forthe issur of
bassar bechalav

   1. Rambam - smacks of an Avodah Zoro ritual
   2. RambaN - some issue of magic/kishuf/kil'a'yim


Hinuch - Favors RambaN, does not see Rambam's point
Archaeology- suggests that seething kids in Mothe'rs milk was a Pagan
Practice by a Cana'anite Tribe [Uggurites?]  Thus, we have EVIDENCE that
RambaM is right on the money here.

Do we NOW revise our Hashkafah in light of KNOWING BETTER?
I say YES!  The Rambam's rational apporach has actually been borne out by
scientific evidence. This dovetails well With R. Sa'adyah Gaon's thesis that
over time ALL mitzovs will be "sichliyos" And I speculate that had the
Hinuch known what WE know he would have been Modeh to the RambaM, but since
he did not have that information he was  "stuck"  following the RambaN.

Who is interested in taking this approach? Or despite sechel, science, RSG
and RambaM we still really do NOT know better?
-- 
Kol Tuv / Best Regards,
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