[Avodah] Education - was RAYK and the end of chol

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

>
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:35:54AM -0400, Richard Wolpoe wrote:
> : I have been intending to post the Aruch hashulchan's critique of custom's
> in
> : hilchos Megillah. Now the AhS is considered highly pro-mimeitc but he
> makes
> : some very  specific [harsh?] parameters as to waht minhaggim oare valid.
> : Rema rejects certain Minhaggim - which is why I trust his judgment when
> he
> : supports a Minhag- becayse his reaction is NOT knee-jerk but a considered
> : opininion.
>
> The AhS isn't really "pro mimetic", or else he would assume people pasqen
> by seeing what's done, not by hitting books like AhS.
>
> Rather, he believes in the formal ("textual") authority of minhag avos.
> Perhaps even using the assumption that minhag avos can be taken as
> evidence of undocumented formal pesaqim (or ones that were documented,
> but the teshuvah/seifer was lost). Much like historians' claims about
> minhag Ashkenaz coming from a parallel mesorah to the stream that produced
> the Bavli, that was less completely recorded in the midrashei halakhah
> and the Y-mi.
>
> IOW, mimeticism is knowing what a kezayis is from memory of what tatty
> ate at his seider, what zeidi ate, what the rav took in shul, etc...
> Textual use of minhag avos is defending RCN's kezayis over the CI's
> because those people must have relied on something.
>
> Which is why the bulk of the AhS is finding textual support of pesaqim,


I am not sure precisely what you mean - iow this is fuzzy to me - but this
does not appear to be based upon any hard statistical evidence...


>
> even when it's clear that the conclusion is overwhelmingly whatever was
> the usual practice in Litta.
>
> Tir'u baTov!
> -Micha
>

I mroe or less concur with this re: AhS but I do not quite feel he is more
Litvish Centric than the  MB is Mussar-Centric.

Actuallyin framing the issues, the AhS is often Rambam-Centric and he often
drills down from the Rambam into the salient debates.

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