[Avodah] Seeing G'zeiros Everywhere

[Richard Wolpoe]

Some of my sources have been uploaded to asidas courtesy of our esteemed
Moderator Reb Micha
http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/faxes/gezeirahSources.doc

Note
I omitted sources on Gozrin Taanis Tzibbur and the SA project did not have
Chosehn Mishpat online so I wll try to get it off another location later



On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 7:55 PM, <kennethgmiller at juno.com> wrote:
> R' Rich Wolpoe wrote:
>> G'zeira is about s'yag or policy and could take into
>> consideration k"vod RMF or RYDS and another non-rigorous
>> considerations and requires no such rigor, but I would love
>> to see it so labeled.
>> If you want to term this NEITHER p'saq NOR g'Zeria but a
>> third kind of "animal" fine.

> I have long wondered about where we draw the line between making a new
> halachah or minhag, as opposed to setting policy. A new halachah will be
> binding upon all subsequent generations, but a policy is clearly dependent
> upon the current situation.
> Akiva Miller

There is a category of G'zeira that is simply policy - BUT AISI it
properly has to be a SYAG

The big hilluq between G'zeiros of BD hagadol through Talmud and those
that are Post Talmud is merely the scope of the authority of the Gozrim!

RMF is STILL Respected on the Lower East Side re: policy
Same for RYDS at Stern College re: Women reading m:gillah
Same for R  Henkin Sr. for the Ezras Torah Luach

These are POLICIES, and there is nothing wrong with that

my kvetch - and the kvetch of like-minded intellectuals - is that posqim
SHOULD make distinctions between p'Saq and policies and they often DO NOT.
But AISI Rambam, SA and Rema et al. - at least in their CODES - did.
Maybe in their Shu"tim they did not.

Someone quibbled with me offline re: the scope of the policy institution
It could be a:

   1. Community
   2. a BD - EG we will not appoint a dayan who does X
   3. A kashrus Agency - Which is sometimes a BD

When Rabbanim and Dayanim issue a g'zeira and explain the "shema" fine.
Then the tzibur can accept or reject the g'zeira as these things go.

Good Shabbos

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