[Avodah] Brain Death

[Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer]

That is indeed the point!

If you have a strong stomach, check out the comments on 
http://www.rationalistjudaism.com/2011/01/popular-misconceptions-and-my-mistake.html

KT,
YGB

On 1/19/2011 7:27 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
>
> The point is that if you start by assumign you can 2nd-guess the mesorah,
> what you're doing isn't pesaq. It's one thing when dealing with an
> 8th month baby and you're cornered into pasqening differently than did
> Chazal. Then you come up with uqimtos to distinguish the two cases. It's
> another when you're so sure of your 2nd-guessing what what Chazal said and
> why that you can comfortably say "Chazal were mistaken in this regard.
> That should be self-evident." Halakhah can't be made by people who that
> easily declare Chazal wrong.
>
> IIUC, *THAT* is RYGB's central thesis. And if not, it's mine.
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