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[Zev Sero]

On 23/06/2011 11:37 PM, Simon Montagu wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Zev Sero<zev at sero.name>  wrote:

>>> A piece of paper that fell from heaven. I'm not even sure how to respond
>>> to that. I don't think we get our liturgy from pieces of paper that fall
>>> from heaven.
>>
>> Except that that is *exactly* how we got Baruch She'amar.  I'm not sure
>> how to respond to someone who openly says they don't believe that.
>> See Taz OC 51:1
>
> See http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=14392&st=&pgnum=61&hilite=
> (ot samech at the foot of the page).

Wow, *that's* a stretch!  Bimchilas kevodo, where did he come up with it?
He says he's responding to mockers, but how can anyone possibly find that
convoluted explanation easier to accept than the straightforward meaning?
A person who believes in Hashem has no difficulty accepting the plain
meaning, and a mocker will only laugh at the knots into which the apologist
twists himself to explain this away.  So why bother coming up with it?
In any event, we are certainly not required to accept it.


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Zev Sero                      The trouble with socialism is that you
zev at sero.name                 eventually run out of other people’s money
                                                      - Margaret Thatcher