[Avodah] The Aruch haShulchan and the Government

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 07:50:44AM -0400, Zev Sero via Avodah wrote:
:> 1905 was the year the empire survived the Russian Refolution, which
:> was over this very issue of Russification of minorities, among other
:> things.

: Or, if you like, instead of calling it self-censorship you can see
: it as bitter irony, obvious to the intended audience, but to which
: the censor could raise no official objection, even though it would
: have been obvious to him too.

I really find it incredibly unlikely that RYME included a false pesaq in
his work in order to share some bittere loichter with his first-generation
audience.

Since he left in his tzava instructions about printing the remaining
qunterisin (which ended up including nidon didan) and about collecting
them into volumes, it is even more implausible he thought of only his
contemporary readers.

:-)BBii!
-Micha