[Avodah] A shemitta miracle story

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, December 3, 2007 12:49 pm, R Dov Bloom wrote:
: The SM'A in Choshen Mishpat 67 states explicitly that there is no
: promised de'oraita bracha these days.
: The Baal Gilyon HaShas (R Yosef Engel)  in his sefer Shmitta  states
: likewise.
: R Avrum Elkana Kahana Shapira...
: This seems to be the "psak halacha".  I never saw anyone pasken
: clearly that there was the guaranteed bracha de'oraita nowadays....

See the CI (Deshevi'is 18, #4).

RARakeffet ties this into a more general machloqes about whether dinim
derabbanan are functional, or actually cause metaphysical changes.
IOW, is there something supernaturally dangerous/wrong about eating
owf bechalav, or does the gezeirah begin and end as a pragmatic way of
avoiding real basar bechalav. And does it matter whether it's a
gezeirah or another kind of din derabbanan? Maybe owf bechalav is
different in kind than the issur of using neiros Chanukah.

See my notes (embellished, as I can never resist gilding the lily) at
<http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2007/07/safeiq-derabbanan.shtml>.

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha

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