[Avodah] costa concordia

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 05:44:02PM -0400, Rich, Joel wrote:
:>                                               So, if the whole list of
:> rules is secondary to talmud Torah (and perhaps not current knowledge --
:> "shevirei luchos" too?) is it such a stretch to understand why poseqim
:> assume it is even lower down the criteria list, perhaps even "if all
:> else were equal"

: But no one suggests a Talmud torah test either to the best of my
: knowledge...

Right, because the whole sugya is already deemed all else equal. Not that
the second mishnah alone trumps the first (and the gemara's elaborations
thereon) but that that section of mishnayos -- both sets of criteria --
are an "all else equal" discussion, to come after rules that maximize
the number of people saved, who came because someone else took achrayus
for them, etc...

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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