[Avodah] Hilchos Kaddish

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 04:09:17PM +0000, rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:
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: IOW, I would suggest that gematrios are memory aids. However, their
: post-facto status doesn't belittle them. An entire quarter (if it were
: developed to the same extent as the other three) of the mesorah exists
: "just" to help us enrich and internalize ideas that are actually derived
: in other ways.
: 
: Tir'u baTov!
: -Micha»
: 
: It's NOT how the gmara uses it in this context
: Rather it's used as a midrash halachah

Which is where? And if "remez" is midrash halakhah, what is "derash"?
And why the reuse of the same shoresh for two different modalities?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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