[Avodah] ancient minhagim

[Eli Turkel]

<<Did Tosafos think they were reinterpreting, or using other data to
understand how it was always understood, thus explaining how the
practice was allowed to persist.>>

I assume that tosefot thought this was the perush in the gemara

I recently read an interesting article about shitat Brisk. Among other
things the author states that R. Chaim insisted that he was just clarifying
what the rishonim and gemara was saying and not really introducing anything new

OTOH the critics of the Brisker shita (including possibly CI) claimed that this
was a revolution in learning and so was an incorrect approach.

i.e. due to the conservatism (small c) of halakha any real chiddush has to
be claimed to be nothing really new

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Eli Turkel