[Avodah] Season's Greetings

[Micha Berger]

Earlier I wrote on list that "Gemar chasimah tovah" apparently assumes
like the author of Unesaneh Toqef, who for some reason doesn't make
these distinctions -- beRH yeikaseivu uveYom Tzom Kippur yeichaseimun
for everybody. Look at the next line, what's being discussed isn't myself
or beinonim in particular, it's "kamah yaavrun vekamah yibarei'un", etc...

(Tangent: Unesaneh Toqef was found among the earlier documents in the
Cairo geniza. It has to be older than R' Amnon of Mainz appearing to R'
Klonymus ben Meshulam in the famous dream. Possibly by Yannai.)

RMPoppers asked me off-list how the author could contradict a maamar
chazal. Thinking out loud...

If you look at the Rambam's (eg) definition of beinoni, no one would
qualify. Who is EXACTLY balanced between mitzvos and aveiros?

So clearly the category is broader than exact balance.

It's possible the paytan took the far extreme -- that unless someone
is MRAH or one of the poeple individually named in the mishnah in pereq
Cheileq as lacking olam haba, they are beinonim WRT the time of chasimah.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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