[Avodah] Fwd: Rabbi Hershel Schachter - True Freedom

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Mon May 14 14:12:46 PDT 2012


On 14/05/2012 1:32 PM, Ben Waxman wrote:
> So why didn't the Rambam list this a heter?

He did -- in Hil' Shmita Veyovel.  There's a rule in Mishneh Torah
that the Rambam expected people to learn the whole thing, in order,
and to remember what he wrote earlier; he never repeats something
he said earlier unless there's a specific reason why it needs to be
said again.

-- 
Zev Sero        "Natural resources are not finite in any meaningful
zev at sero.name    economic sense, mind-boggling though this assertion
                  may be. The stocks of them are not fixed but rather
		 are expanding through human ingenuity."
		                            - Julian Simon



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