[Avodah] Eliyahu beHar haCarmel

[Zev Sero]

On 2/04/2012 12:35 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> I assume my experience is normal, that Eliyahu beHar haKarmel is the
> textbook case of a navi overriding the normal din with a hora'as sha'ah.
>
> But after today's Y-mi Yomi, I'm not sure it really qualifies. It says
> in Megillah at the end of 1:11, vilna 16b: "Amar R' Yosi ben Chaninah:
> Ein [habamah] niteres ela benavi." I'm I wrong, or is RYBC saying that
> the permissability of a navi making a bamah is mutar in principle,
> even if only one navi invoked it?

"Niters benavi" *is* "hora'as sha'ah".  That's what "hora'as shaah"
*means*.



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