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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">Below you will find a portion of a comment to a Cross-Currents post and my response. As you can see, my response has received an extended moderation period. I have not received a response to my query to the moderators so I thought I would ask the chevra their opinion on my understanding of horrat shaah (BTW I assume the original commenter did not really mean irrevocable but permanent)<BR>
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KT<BR>
Joel Rich</FONT>
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<BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">From: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Rich, Joel </FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Sent: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Wednesday, January 09, 2008 5:29 AM</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">To: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">'talkback@cross-currents.com.'</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Subject: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma"> chemotherapy</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I'm curious as to which part of this post is causing the extended moderation period.</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">KT<BR>
Joel Rich</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Regarding the inyan of Hora’as Sha’ah, it seems to be that the writing of the Mishna was more than that - it was “Eis La’asos LaShem, Hefeiru Torasecha.” I would not be surprised if those Sages who decided upon this knew that their move would be irrevocable<BR>
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<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">I doubt it since aiui a horrat shaah is by definition revocable. IIRC R’ Schwab in “Rav Schwab on Prayer” mentions that in the future all these sfarim will be in the museum but not used. Quite the opposite, I wonder if these sages knew that their temporary emergency measure would become permanent (separate question as to how), would they have enacted it anyway?<BR>
KT</FONT>
<BR><I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Comment by joel rich</FONT> <FONT FACE="Tahoma">—</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> January 7, 2008 @ </FONT></I><A HREF="file://\l "><I><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">6:40 am</FONT></U></I></A><I></I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"></FONT><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Your comment is awaiting moderation.</FONT></I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT>
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