[Avodah] Practice During the First and Second Bais Hamikdash

[via Avodah]

From: "Prof. Levine via Avodah"  <avodah at lists.aishdas.org>

Are you asserting that Torah shel Baal  Peh was not given with 
precision and definitiveness?  If so,  then  this is a chidash to me.

YL 




>>>>>>
 
I'm sure you know the answer to your own question but here is a brief  
answer anyway.
 
[1] Some of the halachos that were given to Moshe Rabbeinu ba'al peh  were 
forgotten over the course of centuries, especially after the churban bayis  
sheini, with the mass deaths and dispersions that occurred at that  time.  
This was precisely the reason the chachamim began to write  the Mishna and 
later the Gemara -- because they saw that details were being  forgotten.
 
[2] Some of the original laws were davka not given with precision and  
definitiveness.  For example, there was an obligation to daven but the  exact 
wording of brachos and tefillos was not given on Har Sinai.
 
[3] Over time there were many enactments made by Chazal.  Holidays  (Purim 
and Chanuka) and fast days (Tisha B'Av et al) were added to the Jewish  
calendar to commemorate historical events, and the laws specifying how these  
days were to be observed were, needless to say, not handed down on Sinai.   
There were also enactments like declaring chicken to be fleishig, or the rules 
 of muktza, and many more.  If you were magically transported back in time  
and invited to share a Shabbos meal with Dovid Hamelech, you would hardly  
recognize his religion.  (He wouldn't recognize your religion,  either.)
 
[4] Finally, and most dramatically, with the importation of  potatoes from 
the New World, ancient chulent and kugel recipes were  rendered obsolete.  
 
--Toby Katz
t613k at aol.com
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