[Avodah] Halachic Authority of Zohar wasTfillin on chol hamoed

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

> RJR wrote:
> :> Question- How could it be that the earlier rishonim were unaware of
> :> the severity of the "prohibition"?
>
> Someone answered on Areivim (typo? attempt at saving reputation?):
> : Default answer: the "Zohar" hadn't been found yet. Cough.
>
> Let's assume the most "frum" position, that the Zohar we have today is
> as RaShBY wrote it.
>
> Even if known to the intelligentsia, no one would have made it a basis
> of pesaq until more widely available. The publication of the Zohar
> radically changed Yahadus simply by making it possible to give these
> ideas center stage.
>
>
>
> SheTir'u baTov!
> -micha
>
> --
>


So if CI [or others] object to [lemashal] Me'iri creeping into the Halchic
process at a "later date" how come the Zohar is allowed to creep in after
being outside he Halchi process all those years?

Or Lemashal, let's say a Midrash  existed  in the eraof mIdrashim -- let's
call it Midrash Rav Papa. . Poskim  know about it , but didn't pasken from
it  for let's 1,000 years. What could change and make this Midrash Rav Papa
a source text for Halachic practice - especially one that would alter
EXISTING practice [as opposed to just creating an uncontrovesial minhag]?

Even if Midrash RashBY was a 100% authentic Midrash, it would seem to be
lich'ora an 'aggadic" document not a  Halachic one.

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