<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer <<a href="mailto:ygb@aishdas.org">ygb@aishdas.org</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;">
On Thu, February 14, 2008 6:18 pm, Michael Makovi wrote:<br>
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I don't know why no one else responded to you, but I would find it<br>
difficult to reply to someone who states "*I* disagree" with the Rambam,<br>
RSRH et al.<br>
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KT,<br>
<font color="#888888">YGB</font><br></blockquote></div><br>Since when is disagreeing with a Rabbi a sin?<br>
<br>and yet Rabbiner Hirsch seems to equate R. M. Mendelsohn with R. Mosheh ben Maimon [see 18th letter] - would you concur? Disagree?<br><br>And in my favorite Teshuva IM Orach Chaim pt.2 #100 RMF dismisses Tosafos' right to allow dancing on Sahbbos andfurthemore dimisses the BY's sevara defending Tosafos - w/o really giving any cogent logic as to how the sevara is flawed!<br>
<br>And yet when it comes to eating peanuts on Passover or using Shabbos Clocks for anything other than lights - the whole world rejects RMF himself! How can that be? <br><br>Mah nafshach? If RMF can trump Tosfaos and the Bet Yosef [in just one teshuva!] - how can WE trump him?<br>
<br>Or is Torah more democratic than that after all, and that ANYONE with a raya can trump anyone else. Rambam himself posits this in his Hakdamah to Mishne Torah s his license for dismissing Ga'onic precdent. Similar points are made in Choshen Mishpat 25, that rayos can trump existing p'sak or precedent! <br>
<br>And while many "gedolim" pasken based upon the Zohar, the Ya'avetz jhas questioned this practice, and the Rema did not give the Zohar much Halachic weight - although he was certainly not opposed to Kabbalh per se. <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>