<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Micha Berger</b> <<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</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;">
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:41:31AM -0400, Elliott Shevin wrote:<br>: ... As an aside, tumah is not intrinsically a bad thing....<br><br>I think that's a difference between nigleh and nistar.<br><br>According to the gemara, you have to wash neigl vasser before tefilah.
<br>According to the Zohar, and this made it into halakhah pesuqah (outside<br>of Teiman), one is supposed to wash as soon as possible. Tum'ah is<br>transformed from something that contradicts certain mitzvos to something
<br>inherently wrong and to be minimized.<br><br>Tir'u baTov!<br>-Micha<br><br>--<br>Micha Berger </blockquote><div><br>Questions:<br><ol><li>How did the Gra restore the use of 2 matzos at the Seder based upon the peshat of Gmara when the Halachic trend as to use 3? Certainly Rema would follow Tosafos and Rosh but even the Beis Yosef rejects Rambam and Rif because the world Minhag in his day was to use 3 as per Tso. and Rosh
</li><li>Bottom line: Isn't the Gra positing that we may ALWAYS go back to the Gmara and current Halchic norms even if based upon Tradition or poskim?<br></li></ol></div>.[FWIW Kaf hachayyim mentions this GRA and reports it as "dimissed" by "acharonim"]
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