[Avodah] RYBS's Talk on Hafkaas Kiddushin, Talmud Torah and Kabala s Ol Malchus Shamayim

[Rich, Joel via Avodah]

This is how I understand it:

Just as a leopard cannot change its spots, and just as Shabbos comes each week whether society accepts it or not, so too, there are certain elements of the human condition which Chazal have identified as inherent and unchanging, not subject to variation by time, place, or culture.

Or something like that. At any rate, one can agree or disagree about whether this assertion is true, and even among those who agree with it, there might be discussion of exactly which chazakos are unchanging and which are variable. Still, his point is that there are indeed some UNchanging aspects.

Akiva Miller
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I would add an observation that individual exceptions may exist empirically but are ignored halachically
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Joel rich
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