[Avodah] TIDE, Rabbeinu Tam style

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:22:14AM +0200, Akiva Blum wrote:
:> The HM quotes Rabbeinu Tam that "X im Y" means "with Y, the iqar, there
:> is also X". E.g. "Yechlequ yoreshei habaal im yoreshei ha'av", and
:> many other examples....
...
:> Rabbeinu Elchanan (who I believe is another baal Tosefos) says the
:> more obvious -- that Torah is the iqar, and relates it to "harishonim
:> asu Torasam qeva umelakhtam arai."

: I see Rabeinu Tam not as saying that DE is the ikar of chaim, rather, the
: ikar of the sentence...

But that doesn't fit the examples, nor R' Elchanan's objection.

If we do mean DE in the sense of DE qodmah laTorah, I actually think it
is the iqar. As per the Ramchal and the Gra, who explicitly say that
the point of shemiras hamitzvos is sheviras hamidos hara'os. (And it
appears to be implied by the Chinukh's "ha'adam nif'al lefi pe'ulaso.)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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