[Avodah] ret: costa concordia - and Specialization

[Zev Sero]

On 2/04/2012 5:48 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> There are still the issues of mishum eiva and mipenei darkhei Shalom.
>
> Mishum eivah is not a bedi'eved, a pragmatic way to survive. BM 12a
> applies it between father and child; Yuma 12b, to the kohein gadol;
> Kesuvos 58b, between husband and wife.
>
> In The Human and Social Factor in Halakhah" ch 8, R' Aharon Lichtenstein
> explains that the pursuit of shalom and avoidance of eivah is not
> pragmatic, but part of the general rule of imitatio dei. E.g. He quotes
> how the Rama used Achitofel's argument from sotah that he could erase
> sheim Hashem for the sake of Shalom, and "leshanos mipenei hashalom",
> as proofs that the pursuite of shalom is itself a deOraisa that could
> outrank others.

Then why was it not permitted before the 19th century?

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