[Avodah] Can One Take In Shavuot Early?

Isaac Balbin isaac.balbin at mail.gmail.com
Sat May 15 02:00:50 PDT 2021


From: <allan.engel at gmail.com>
> The issue with this particular practice is that it is based on an 'drasha'
> on a word in a passuk that was never darshened until relatively recently,
> and new drashas on pessukim have been outlawed since the era of the amoraim.

Indeed, this is an area that the Chafetz Chaim was critical of R'
Hersh Leib (the Netziv). The Netziv sometimes supports his view with a
new interpretation of a pasuk which had never seemingly existed prior,
thereby affixing a deorayso like imperative to same.



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