[Avodah] Ta'am of eating matzah

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

>
> : You are taking issue with the idea that the Torah presumes knowledge
> : of Egytian bread and pagan meat and milk...
>
> I'm taking issue with the idea that we need such knowledge to get the
> primary gain from the mitzvah.
>
>
> Tir'u baTov!
> -Micha


The poitn of the above is simple. That kema'aseh eretz mitzryaim at the end
of Achaarie Mos MIGHT be NOW undserstood in light of this factoid as a
META_MITAVAH like KEDOSHIM TIHYU

You seem to think that a paradigm shift is somehow intrinsically evil. I say
if the pardigm shift gives a uerpior understnad of the REtzon haborei and
the CONTEXT of what the Torah actually meant to say, then we should embrace
it not RUN from it

Your opposition fells to me like a  distaste for leaving your comfort zone
and adventuring out into the curtting edgeof understanding as opposed  to a
solid hashkafa problem

Example Being introduced to Chiastic structures [mostly by Menachem Liebtag]
changed my entire understanding of TaNach.  And hearing R. Y. Adler explain
the Rav's shita on the dynamics of Kol Nidre  [especialy of v'nislach] was a
paradigm shift that made  the entire  section fit together as never before.

As Rabbi Kanarfogle told me about RYBS and Wissenshaft: Whe it madesnese he
likedit and when it didn't he didn' like it.  The idea that HKBH was
legislating against specific Egyptian Paganistic rituals or spoke to B'nei
Yisreol in Egyptian metaphor enhances my emuna, nto dminishes it. It means
thes people were realyl IN EGYPT and Hshem was speaking their Lnaguage and
was enacting gzeiros agasitn THEIR temptations and dangers - which probably
were all present until the end of Bayyis Rishon. IT is clear that there was
a break after the first Hurban and things Morphed. AZ was no longer the big
bogeyman in Bayyis sheini so new paradigms wer needed.


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Kol Tuv / Best Regards,
RabbiRichWolpoe at Gmail.com
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