[Avodah] Auspicious times in Halocho

[Zev Sero]

Danny Schoemann wrote:

> So how do we reconcile the issur Lo Th'Onenu (Vayikra 19:26) with
> various auspicious times sprinkled throughout our literature??

The same way we reconcile the issur on kishuf with the practise of
creating things with sefer yetzirah, and of tzadikim performing miracles.
The difference is not in what you're doing, but in the source of the
powers you're using: if you use kochot hatum'ah it's kishuf; if you do
exactly the same thing with the power of Torah then it isn't.  Or the way
we reconcile the issur on nichush with the practise of deciding things by
goral.  If you're ascribing the result to kochot hatum'ah ("the Fates")
then it's nichush; but if you're consulting Hashem's will by creating an
opportunity for hashgacha pratit to influence things without the need for
an open miracle, then it's a standard Jewish practise.  The same thing
applies here: if you're getting your "auspicious times" from avoda zara
then it's innun, but if you're getting them from Torah sources then it's
true.


> IIRC the Sefer Chariedim has a collection of these "auspicious times",
> and if you add them all up they cover almost 24/7. :-)
> - Danny, tired of playing the "devil's advocate"

So you were aware of this all along.  I was wondering how you could
not have been.


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