<html><head></head><body>Wed, 7 Mar 2007 from: "Micha Berger" <micha@aishdas.org><BR><BR>> I am throwing out the possibility that Issurim deRabbanan are made when<BR>society evolves to the point that a rule can be defined legally, rather than a<BR>set of values given for people to decide situationally. <<BR><BR>How about "when society evolves to the point that a rule MUST be defined legally, rather than a<BR>set of values given for people to decide situationally," because too many people became ineffificent in situational judgment, and therefore formal, more blanket rules were deemed necessary? I think this is a traditional approach. (Compare Rambam re: R' Yose HaGlili and poultry with milk, as I think you've recently pointed out; and Rambam on why the nusach of Shemoneh Essray was standardized.)<BR><BR>Zvi Lampel<BR><BR><br></body></html>