[Avodah] Mi Ban Siach

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 12:43:52PM +0200, Arie Folger wrote:
: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
: > It seems clear to me that in all three contexts the one-in-a-minyan who
: > knows how to daven is being compared to the shoshanah.
: 
: Context, context, context .. and larger context.

Really, I should have said "cases". I didn't bring in a wider context.

The medrash says "Lemah hu domeh beineihem? Keshoshanah bein
hachochim." I'm repeating that -- the mevareikh is the shoshanah, the
masses who lack the art of blessing and prayer are the chochim. Unlike
the other comments on this pasuq which make kelal Yisrael the shoshanah
bein umos ha'olam.

How can context turn the befeirush words of the medrash into something
else? I would faster say that R' Chanan deTzipori was simply not trying
to fit the words of the other tannaim. (Since the thoughts are't mutually
exclusive, I won't say "he is choleiq on".)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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