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[Noam Stadlan via Avodah]

The point is that it wasn't set up that way, and Gedolim like the Chatam
Sofer write explicitly that it wasn't set up that way, and that saying that
modern semicha was set up to imitate ancient semicha(to such an extent that
the same prohibitions apply) is a distortion of history and Halachic
history.  Furthermore, what you are saying is not the explicit position of
the Rambam, Tosafot, and the Rama(I still haven't been able to find the
Mahariq), it is your understanding of those sources.  The Rama makes more
sense when read in the context of the quotes that I provided from the
Chatam Sofer et al.  The Rambam, could well be discussing ancient semicha
in the sources you describe........



On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 6:17 PM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

> //On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 05:53:03PM -0500, Noam Stadlan wrote:On Wed, Jun
> 07, 2017 at 05:53:03PM -0500, Noam Stadlan wrote:
> : The claim that there is a connection between Mosaic semicha and what we
> : have now is historically completely wrong...
>
> And therefore you'll pasqen differently than what you would conclude based
> on the Rambam, Tosafos, the Mahariq and the Rama? How is a historical
> study even procedurally relevant to how O does halakhah?
>
> The connection need not be historical, it could be that one was set up
> to imitate the other with no continuity between them.
>
> Tir'u baTov!
> -Micha
>
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