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size=2>From: Gershon Seif <A
href="mailto:gershonseif@yahoo.com">gershonseif@yahoo.com</A><BR><BR>>>Anyone
ever see what the Sefer HaChinuch writes about why women who give birth to a boy
are in Nidah for a week but for a girl it's 2 weeks?....<BR><BR>....The problem
is that he then quotes a Ramban and says that this is exactly what the Ramban is
saying too..... Are we left saying the Ramban got it wrong? Or he meant
something else and we don't understand? Or the chinuch had a different approach
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size=2>>>>>><BR>I just don't understand this whole tzimmes.
What's the big deal about saying Ramban might have been wrong about
something? There are plenty of times that other meforshim disagree with
Ramban about this and that.</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>This particular question is moot anyway because no modern woman bleeds
for only a week after the birth of a baby. The norm is several
weeks.</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>Some people think that if you say Chazal or Ramban or the Sefer Hachinuch
were wrong about some scientific fact, then you are being disrespectful to
them. I was raised with a completely different understanding and a
different attitude. I would add that if they did refer to the highest
standards of scientific knowledge of their own time, that is a siman that we,
too, should follow their example and apply the highest standards of scientific
knowledge of our time. Who was it who said, "Chachma bagoyim
ta'amin"? Not some modern maskil or Reform rabbi.</DIV>
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