<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 2, 2008 6:49 AM, Michael Makovi <<a href="mailto:mikewinddale@gmail.com">mikewinddale@gmail.com</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">></div><br><br>An interesting example that comes to mind is in Chullin: everyone<br>knows from the Chumash m'farshim (inc. Rashi) that Vayikra we were<br>commanded to eat all our meat as a shelamim, and then in Devarim we
<br>are allowed chullin, nachon? But in Mesechet Chullin, this is a<br>machloket between Rabbi Yishmael (who holds the opinion just given)<br>and Rabbi Akiva (who holds that according to Vayikra, in the desert,<br>we could eat chullin that was stabbed, and in Devarim we are commanded
<br>to shecht our chullin). Now, all the m'farshim follow Rabbi Yishmael,<br>even though they would follow Rabbi Akiva l'maaseh.<br><br>Mikha'el Makovi<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________________________________
<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>this is much more pervasie than this one example<br><br>Read Gmara. Read Artscroll on any Gmara. Virtually EVERYONE learns Gmara like Rashi<br>Read the Tur nd the Bet Yosef. how often do we PASKEN like Rashi when there is a machlokes? Answerr RARELY [tefillin is a big excpetion]
<br><br>We are in a subset of the univesrse that LEARNS the classical authoritaive texts like Rashi but pasken almost invariably like Tosafos or Rambam or Rashba, etc. <br><br>Stam mishna Kerabbi Me'r but how often does r. Me'ir triumph over his colleagues? R. Me'ir FRAMEd the mishna but NOT the Halachic controversies with the Mishnah.
<br><br>Certainly Mishna Eduyos [currentlyin the Mishna yomis cycle] seems to imply that there is a benefit for preserving rejecting opinions. Rejected opinions can make BETTER sense [to either individuals or even to the masses] but for some reason are not normative. And that is really nothing very new to me.
<br><br>After all Acharei Rabbim lehatos is a principle of Halachah.<br><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com</a><br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">
http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>