<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dov Bloom</b> <<a href="mailto:dovb@netvision.net.il">dovb@netvision.net.il</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>Conclusion: Dont learn VM without HaTekufa HaGedola!<br><br>You wouldn't learn Menachem without Dunash, the Ktzot without the Netivot, or the Mechaber without the Rema!<br><br>More accurately, you wouldn't learn the rejected calender shitot of Ben Meir without Saadya Gaon's responses, you wouldn't delve in to the grammatical opinions of Ben Naftali without learning about the accepted opinions of Ben Asher. Don't learn only the VM without knowing the mainstream hashkafot.
<br></blockquote></div><br>And simlarly aisi<br>Rosh balanced Rif and Tosafos [Me'iras Aynayim seesmto endorse this method]<br>Tur used many major Rishonim <br>Bet Yosef used a beis din of Rif/Rambam/Rosh<br>Rema relid upon Mordechai/Or Zarua/Rosh/Mahari &l others
<br>Kitzur used Chaye Adam/SA harav/DerechHachaim [ this is in a letter he wrote]<br><br>Rambam OTOH is hard to tell upon whom he relied - aside from Rif.<br><br>It would behoove US to not follow the MB blindly but to use a BD. I propose from his era:
<br>MB/Arch Hshulochan and kaf Hachayim/<br><br>I think making one gadol as absolute poseik a dangerous game. OTOH the tanna Rabbi Meir suggests to pick ONE rebbe and don't spread yourself thin.<br><br><br clear="all">
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