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

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:58:37AM -0400, Richard Wolpoe wrote:
: > 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...

The AhS spends more space explaining the origin of a pesaq than listing
pesaqim. That's anecdotal, but I've been averaging a se'if a day since Mar
2, 2005 (when the current daf yomi cycle began), and that's my impression.

: > even when it's clear that the conclusion is overwhelmingly whatever was
: > the usual practice in Litta.

: 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.

A number of rashei yeshiva disagree. On my wedding day, RDLifshitz
told me to make sure to have an AhS in my home, since it represents
halakhah as it was practiced in Suvalk (where he was once rav, and my
greatgrandfather had a kloiz as well) more than any other seifer.

RSYW told NIRC talmidim something similar.
As had R' Hutner told his talmmidim.

The MB isn't so much mussar-centric as a textual survey of shitos that
post-date the SA tzuras hadaf. The CC even tells you that's his intent.
I would think a Mussar-Centric approach would have more of what I called
"aggadic values" -- sticking to baseline bein adam laMaqom when it
conflicts with bein adam lachaveiro, choosing shitos by which reinforces
middos one needs work on, etc... Mussar, like Chassidus, created pe'ulos
to fit the Ism.

The MB is more about collecting shitos and being machmir when the stakes
are high enough to warrant it, otherwise going with the majority (weighted
by accepted authority).

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

But his maskanah is almost always as per minhag Litta.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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