[Avodah] number of mitzvos/

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 03:45:28PM -0700, Harvey Benton wrote:
: there has been much discussion on the sh'e lo asani isha/goy aspect
: of some of the berachot. i am wondering if the key to what
: chazal were/is thinking, has to do with the inverse relationship
: of mitzvos that one has to do.......

See prior threads:
http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/getindex.cgi?section=F#FALSE%20TEACHING
http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/getindex.cgi?section=S#SHELO%20ASANI%20ISHA

As RZL has pointed out in the past, this is explicitly stated by R'
Yehudah, who was the talmid of R' Meir, the author of the berakhos. (Y-mi
Berakhos 9:3, the conclusion is repeated also by Rashi on Menachos
43b). For some reason RZL says it as R' Yehudah himself being the author,
I forgot his source.

I noted its parallel to a statement in the Xian bible, where Paul (a
younger contemporary of R' Meir) denies the need for mitzvos and along
the way denies the same 3 distinctions in the same order. Sadly, such
external proof carries more weight with Jews of the sort who would rile
against alleged O misogyny.

The Bach says the reason why the berakhos are in the negative is because
if you would open with "shelo asani Yisrael", you already thanked G-d
for getting the full sweep of mitzvos and the other berakhos would
be levatalah.

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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