<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Zev Sero</b> <<a href="mailto:zev@sero.name">zev@sero.name</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;">
Richard Wolpoe wrote:<br>> Rav / Herschel Schachter states: /<br>> [...]<br><br>> And now by extension may kohanim use an innovation such as a box to<br>> visit the Rebb's Ohel?<br><br>Why on earth not? What issur are they doing?
<br><br>> 1. Does that constitute a Shinuy of Halachah?<br><br>What halacha are they changing?<br><br>> 2. Is it a valid Chiddush?<br><br>What is the chiddush?<br><br>> 3. Is this a Reform C"V<br><br>
Ch"v, how can you even suggest such a thing?<br><br>> 4. iss it normative as per Talmud but not OK since it was never done<br>> before?***<br>Who says it was never done? I don't know and nor do you.
<br><br>> 5. Is it an evolution of facts on the gorund? IOW just as there USED<br>> to be a reshus harrabim in the Time of the Gmara but there aren't<br>> any more [as per many poskim] therefore we have different norms
<br>> re: Hotza'ah?<br><br>Huh?<br><br>What I do know is that this is a practise done for more than half a<br>century, by thousands of yere'im ush'leimim, by the psak and consent of<br>hundreds of rabbonim and ge'onei olam, including the LR, and that it
<br>appears to be in full compliance with the Shulchan Aruch and every<br>other source of halacha. It seems to me that before one asks whether<br>they may do this one would need to find *some* source against it,<br>*some* reason why it might be assur, rather than a mere "I've never
<br>heard of it". ISTM that the answer to "lo ra'inu" is "now you have<br>seen it, and are richer for the experience".<br><br>As for the quote from RHS, I'm not sure of its relevance here, since
<br>no halacha seems to be changing. I don't see why RHS would have any<br>problem with this practise, had he been asked.<br><br>--<br>Zev Sero <br></blockquote></div><br>Huh?<br>Of course this impacts Halacha! if the box is a kosher workaround for Tum'ah - Then Kohanim should be EXPECTED to vist kever Avos. It's a slam dunk that if they did not avail of themslves of this heter that the yhave bee nremiss all along in Minahg Yisrael to visit kever Avos on Yahrtzeit, Tisha b'av , ellul etc.!
<br><br>[there is a law - anything permitted becomes required over time...] <br><br>The fact that Kohanim have avoided cemeteriess for centurisd tells you thateither<br><ol><li>We are not mechadesh a practice to get around a Halacha
</li><li>OR the fact taht no one availed themselves earlier proves NOTHING which is a direct contradiction to RHS thesis</li></ol>It seems obvious you MSUT reject RHS thesis that Lo Ra'inu is a raya a because frum Jews have taken up this wrokaround in the last few decades in order to avail themselves of something NOT EXPOLCITLY forbidden by Halachah
<br><br>RHS is saying if generations have NOT availed themselves it implies that they SHOULD not avail themselves! <br><br><br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com
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