[Avodah] Auspicious times in Halocho

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 06:12:16PM -0500, Michael Kopinsky wrote:
: Lest you say that the pasuk is only brought to support a halacha whose
: "real" reason is zerizin makdimin, I'll point you to Brachos 29b, where R'
: Chiya bar Abba in the name of R' Yochanan advocates davening as the sun as
: about to set, citing the same pasuk. In that case, and by extension on 9b as
: well, Yira'ucha im shemesh is not about zerizin makdimin, but about davening
: as the sun is rising/setting.

Davening with the sun, so that one's spiritual and physical rhythms are
in sync, has psychological power. It could be that Chazal are speaking
of good times to daven because of very tangible reasons - kavanah aids.





I am actually developing a theory (which is surprising, given my
ignorance of this neck of machashavah) that according to the NhC,
everything we ascribe to metaphysical effects only have metaphysical
effects via their impact on a person (NhC 2:6). Thereby eliminating
the chiluq I just made -- by eliminating spiritual mechanics divorced
from maaseh -> neshamah -> metaphysics.

It would also eliminate timtum haleiv when doing something mutar,
perhaps only if never finding out otherwise, as well as render a mezuzah
with a valid chezqas kashrus but physically flawed as protective as
an unflawed mezuzah.

For that matter, it would explain why Eliyahu haNavi has no need to
clarify who is a mamzeir. Because something physical (ancestry) that
no one in the world knows can't possibly have a metaphysical effect
(mamzeirus).

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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