<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 22, 2007 11:57 AM, Zev Sero <<a href="mailto:zev@sero.name">zev@sero.name</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br><br></div>Because now we know better. Many rishonim lived before the discovery<br>of the Zohar, and all lived before the AriZal and the Baal Shem Tov,<br>so they were missing information. The AriZal was taught by Eliyahu
<br>Hanavi, and the Baal Shem Tov by Achiyah Hashiloni, and therefore knew<br>things that had been completely forgotten in previous generations.<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>Zev Sero <br></font></blockquote>
</div><br clear="all">Using this logic - why don't we NOW pronounce ivrith in a manner consistent with the Teimanim since we NOW KNOW BETTER how to really pronounce Hebrew with Ayyin Het, etc.? I say this because A rabbinical collleague posed this to me, b'oso haloashon! that since we NOW KNOW BETTER we cannot rely on "minhag Avos/t/th" in the face of much greater knowledge in Hebrew annunciation.
<br><br>When we defer to earlier sources we invoke "niskatnu!"<br>When we reject earlier sources we calim to know better.<br>in the mater of Hashkafa how do we know better?<br><br>There is a machlokes RambaM and RambaN re: the reason forthe issur of bassar bechalav
<br><ol><li>Rambam - smacks of an Avodah Zoro ritual<br></li><li>RambaN - some issue of magic/kishuf/kil'a'yim</li></ol><br>Hinuch - Favors RambaN, does not see Rambam's point<br>Archaeology- suggests that seething kids in Mothe'rs milk was a Pagan Practice by a Cana'anite Tribe [Uggurites?] Thus, we have EVIDENCE that RambaM is right on the money here.
<br> <br>Do we NOW revise our Hashkafah in light of KNOWING BETTER?<br>I say YES! The Rambam's rational apporach has actually been borne out by scientific evidence. This dovetails well With R. Sa'adyah Gaon's thesis that over time ALL mitzovs will be "sichliyos" And I speculate that had the Hinuch known what WE know he would have been Modeh to the RambaM, but since he did not have that information he was "stuck" following the RambaN.
<br><br>Who is interested in taking this approach? Or despite sechel, science, RSG and RambaM we still really do NOT know better?<br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com
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