[Avodah] Who First Said it?

[Samuel Svarc]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:44 AM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
<SNIP>
> RSMandel convinced me way back in 2002 (see
> <http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/vol09/v09n055.shtml#04>) to take the
> MB's haqdamah at face value. It was written to be a survey of shitos
> that post-date the standardization of the page of the SA, to make them
> available to people who can't collect every seifer. It wasn't written
> to be a collection of pesaq.

Let everyone go and actually read the hagdamah inside. It is clear
that the CC meant it for pesaq. He writes so explicitly.

To quote (using RSMAndel's translation) "The second reason [that we
see that only a small number of people set a seder for learning
halacha l'masseh]... is that it is difficult to know the halokho
l'ma'aseh because of the multiple disagreements brought by the
acharonim". The reason that R' Micha is quoting, that people don't
have access, is written after the CC's second reason as 'V'od'.

Is it reasonable to suppose that the CC wanted to fix the problem of
"it is difficult to know the halokho l'ma'aseh because of the multiple
disagreements brought by the acharonim" by making a "survey of
shitos"? This is illogical and a clear misreading of the hagdamah.

KT,
MSS