[Avodah] D'rabanan vs. D'oraita

[T613K at aol.com]

RMM appended my name to the following quoted material, but I did  not write 
it (although I don't disagree with it).  I'm particular  about my writing and 
like to be praised or blamed for my own writing, not for  anybody else's.
 
==begin quoted material==

 

> ... In any case, we
> see clearly from the Ran that  non-kosher is objectively poison and
> harmful even if you eat it  b'heter.
>
> ....We see clearly that this idea that any non-kosher  food is metamtem
> halev, meaning it has intrinsic effects, even if eaten  b'heter<<
>
==end quoted material==



RMM then  commented:  
 
>>We also all know that RSRH loves  symbolic/educational
interpretations of mitzvot....


In Bamidbar  Rabbah, Parshat Chukat, a gentile asks Rabbi Yohanan about
the ritual of the  parah adumah. Rabbi Yochanan makes something up
about magic and hocus-pocus,  and the gentile leaves..... The mitzvah is 
purely symbolic and
educational,  without any intrinsic spiritual  reality.<<

>>>>>
My feeling is that RMM is  reading too much into Hirsch.  Shlomo Hamelech 
said -- precisely about  parah adumah -- "Amarti echkama vehi rechokah mimeni."  
So it seems  doubtful to me that RMM has plumbed the depths of what Shlomo 
Hamelech wrestled  with.






--Toby  Katz
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