[Avodah] Seeing Policies Everywhere

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:16:13PM +0000, rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:
: I guess I'm the only one who needs to use terms precisely! 

Well, if you want to ask precise questions, like "may a gezeirah be made
today" or whether a particular case is "dan gezeirah al gezeirah" then
you have to be careful to use the technical usage.

If you do not intend to draw implications from the terminology, then the
fact that (lamentably, to my programmer's mind) it's common to also use
these buzzwords loosely gives you free reign to do so.

Like I wrote about the ambiguity of writing, "Saying XYZ isn't LH" --
does that mean it's altogether mutar (LH is being used loosely) or that
the particular issur of LH is being ruled out -- but it could be MSR,
rechilus, avaq LH, etc...

You asked about gezeira al gezeira where the SA tells you that it's a
minhag. A minhag isn't a gezeira in the technical sense, so what's the
question? Are you asserting that ein danin gezeira al gezeira was said
with a broad usage of "gezeira"?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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