[Avodah] new editions

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:02:31AM -0700, Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org wrote:
:     on mail-jewish, someone was discussing a particular psak in shmirat 
: shabbat kehilchata [SSK], and a responder noted that the person must 
: have been referring to the original 1st edition, for the psak [and 
: the discussion in the notes] had changed significantly. one wonders 
: how to deal with trying to find what has changed between editions of psak 
: sfarim. relevant now since the new edition of 
: SSK has come out. they have tried at least to point out correspondence 
: of simanim between edition 2 and 3, with some new material appearing. i 
: wonder whether a sticker need be placed on older editions to say user 
: beware....

I would think that if the author identified errors the first edition, or
things he phrased ambiguously, the book should be decirculated altogether
when the corrected version comes out.

What to me is an open question is when the first edition isn't so much
wrong as the author shifts from one "eilu" to another "eilu" during the
evolution of his own religious life.

(I also wonder why you would ask this question here. It would seem that
commenting to something you saw on Mail-Jewish is more appropriately done
on Mail-Jewish. Even during a week when Avodah volume is abnormally low.)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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