<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chana Luntz</b> <<a href="mailto:chana@kolsassoon.org.uk">chana@kolsassoon.org.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br> However, as this is being used as a justification for a<br>specific leniency (prozbul) which by implication Hillel would never have<br>enacted had shmitta not been d'rabbanan, it would seem logical that the<br>kind of d'rabbanan that shmitta was deemed to be was not one which had
<br>all the chumros of a d'orisa, otherwise the question just reverts. [Of<br>course, the gemora does also give annother answer as to how Hillel was<br>able to enact prozbul, by means of hefker beis din hefker, but it is not
<br>clear that these are indeed alternatives, because either way, you need<br>the hefker beis din hefker response to counter the question as to how<br>the rabbis could deem loans nullified if the Torah itself did not]<br>
<br><br>Regards<br><br>Chana<br></blockquote></div><br>I see your point. I am only rainolizing how some rabbis treat Shemittah more strictly than other derabbanans. I am not positing that since it is treated strictly in some aspects that it must be 100% consistently treated like a d'orraiso!
<br><br>AISI Derabbans are on a continuum. There are PURE derabbans like Hanukkah and there are derabbanan's -like Marror w/o korban Pesach - that are explicit d'orrasio'. Then there are derabbans that have asmachtos or are IMPLCIT in the Torah [
e.g. EruvTechumin].<br><br>From an academic or pedagogical point of view, it would be mis-leading to conveniently label all derabbanan's as the same. That said, I am virtually ignorant re: hilchos shemitta. I am only demonstrating how one derabban could be stricter than another. Whether these poskim are relying on my thesis or have a sociological agenda - I don't know. I am not a mind reader. It is possible that they are using my approach unconsciously in that they have been taught by their rebbes to be strict with Shemitta but don't know WHY that is so. That is where I come in to find a precedent.
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