[Avodah] Dancing Around A Bonfire & Concern of Foreign Practices: Rav Wosner's Responsum

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 03:08:37PM -0400, Zev Sero via Avodah wrote:
:> The question is: How does anyone go at night, as the minhag hage'onim
:> (? early rishonim?) includes Lag la-/baOmer night according to both
:> Ashk and Seph?

: And the answer is that (a) Yom Simchas Rashbi, which was unknown in
: the days of the Ge'onim and Rishonim, begins at nightfall.  Thus
: their words, which are about the day the plague stopped, aren't
: applicable to the new holiday, so those who drop aveilus for it do
: so from nightfall...

You are okay with uprooting what was then a 700+ year old minhag,
nispahseit bekhol Yisrael, codified in the SA, in light of new
information? That's exactly the process question I'm asking about.

If we were talking halakhah, I do not think we could overturn a
comparably accepted accepted pesaq because someone learned something
aggadic.

But moving on to the hashkafic implications of your statement: Never mind
the need to believe that this new information is part of a "continuous
revelation" model of matan Torah; I already knew Chassidim differ from
what I was raised to believe on that.

I wonder. According to RMMS, Yom Simchas Rashbi is a logical consequence
of the end of the plague. R' Aqiva couldn't teach the whole generation
anymore; so he started teaching 5 new leaders, so that they can take
over. One of whom was R' Shimon. So, what was revealed to the Ari (in
this understanding of how the Ari got his Qabbalah) that geonim and
rishonim couldn't have known about?

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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