On Nov 20, 2007 10:51 PM, Sholom Simon <<a href="mailto:sholom@aishdas.org" target="_blank">sholom@aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Even if the challah *does* know -- we're not doing it for the sake of the
Challah, al pi RambaN, right? After all, if shiluach haKen is not
for the sake of the bird, then, it would seem to me kal v'chomer that
covering the challah is not for the sake of the challah. The Rabman
was far from an ultra-rationalist.<br><br>
And then there's the many-told story of the Chofetz Chaim, who witnessed
a man embarrassing his wife for not covering the challah. Whether
the story is accurate or not, it certainly doesn't work if the C"C
didn't think the mitzvah was, al pi Ramban, to inculcate values among
ourselves.<br>-- Sholom<br>
</div><br></blockquote><div>See the Hinuch Mitzva 41:<br>v'hakol yod'im she'ho'avanim lo yakpidu seshum bizayon...<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">and all know that the stones couldn't care less re: any manner of emabarassment;
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<br>Ela hainyon laseis taziyur belibeinu<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">Rather it is to be mindful :-) in our hearts of the Awe of G-d ...<br></div><br>I don't know if the hinuch aualifies as an ultra-rationalist. he states that the point of these mitzvos is our character development - [and as I hold this too is in order to make the society holy and just
e.g. see Hinuch 7]<br></div></div>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com" target="_blank">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com</a><br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">
http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/
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