[Avodah] Halachic Texts: More Background

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 12:02:54AM -0400, Richard Wolpoe wrote:
: But I am persisting on  insisting that he made them optional because the
: Talmud was STILL new enough to go back to it. After the Rishonim were over,
: that was no longer the case.

Give me a rigorous definition of "new enough" that allows for ther Rambam
and not the Gra.

The Gra argued that he only changed pesaqim that were against halakhah
(as he understood it) in favor of those that are not. Not that he
overturned pesaqim trhat were pointless. This is the same rule the
Rambam gives WRT shemittah (as per earlier -- close to a year back --
in this conversation).

: IOW you could be TRUE to the Rambam in 1205 and say we can still go back to
: Talmud and then in 1564 STILL be True to the Rambmaa and lsay this is no
: longer a viable option to ignore prominent Posqim

The Gra doesn't ignore prominent poseqim. He ignores the kehillah's
precedent as to which prominent poseiq to follow. It's an anti-mimetic
thing, and probably a product of the collapse of the ghetto's culture
during his times.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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