[Avodah] Dairy and fish

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 05:35:25AM +0300, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote:
> Dairy and fish. Do we try to understand alternative narratives of what R'
> Karo was thinking or take him at his word? Other places where this type of
> analysis should be used?

I am not saying that sort of analysis is *invalid*. After all, until
lomdus took over yeshiva learning (mostly Brisk, but R Shimon's and
other descendent versions too), girsa'os were more commonly used to get
peshat. Recently in AhSY, we saw RYME cite a Rama questioning the girsa
of the Rosh. He adds more questions to the Rama's, and pasqens like the
adjusted result!

(OC 102:2, the question is whether when discussing the din of not sitting
or spitting within 4 amos of someone who is davening [Shemoneh Esrei]
the Rosh excludes behind the mispallel as well. The AhS pasqens lequlah.)

But once it's accepted as minhag... A minhag ta'us isn't a minhag that
is based as a ta'us. It's a minhag that is itself a ta'us because it
violates din or is a chumera that brings a long a qula in something more
significant.

Second, since your second question uses the word "should", I think it's
a bad idea because of a slippery slope argument. If we reopen practices
that are part and parcel of our religious life, I am afraid the whole
system that preserves our fealty to it will unravel.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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