[Avodah] [Areivim] L'sheim shmayim

[Ben Waxman via Avodah]

If "black letter law" is the criteria, then issues like womens Megila 
readings and women dancing with a Sefer Torah disappear. All the 
opposition because these practices are not "Torat Sabba" doesn't even 
begin if all we do is ask "Muttar? Yes? Fine".

Ben

On 5/28/2017 9:34 PM, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> : It is extremely dangerous to attempt to use non-halakhic elements of
> : Torah in a way that gives them primacy over the halakha...
>
> Again, I agree. But it's also not quite halakhah to only follow the black
> letter law and not recognize the overlap between the aggadic values that
> halakhah must conform to and the law itself.