[Avodah] Gezeira's Tach V'Tat

[Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer]

On 2/15/2012 1:02 PM, Zev Sero wrote:
> On 15/02/2012 1:33 AM, cantorwolberg at cox.net wrote:
>> 3006. The Tosfos YomTov writes that the 'Gezeira's Tach V'Tat' - when 
>> Jews were massacred en masse,
>> was as a direct result of people speaking during davening and Krias 
>> Hatorah. /Piskei Tshuvos 151:3/

>> I would be interested to know if I'm the only one on Avodah who is
>> greatly bothered by the above statement...

> On the contrary, the fact that the TYT wrote it proves that it is
> appropriate, and that our modern standards need recalibrating.

I too have always been bothered by the TYT. My personal "rationalization"
is that the TYT was looking for an easy zechus for Am Yisroel to adopt to
bring the massacres to an end. Talking in shul is, of course, a perennial
problem, and maybe tackling it would constitute a "tipping point" l'tova.

KT,
YGB