<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Micha Berger <<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@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;">
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I don't think there are three categories: mitzvah, reshus, aveirah.<br>
Rather "reshus" is a spectrum between mitzvah and aveirah in which<br>
things are more or less advisable.<br>
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SheTir'u baTov!<br>
-micha<br>
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Micha Berger <br></font></blockquote></div><br>Gut Gezogt!<br><br>Tangentially this is how I construe such re: Milchemes Reshus, never totally optional just not imminently required [discleaimer this is based upon Rashi in Humash not upon the Gemara itself]<br>
<br>See Tosafos re: Arvis as Reshus. It matches this concept very well.<br><br>One of my rebbes in yeshiva opposed softball because there was a lot of sitting around when one's team is at bat, at least basketball and handball etc. one was constantly exercising. IOW, if one needs to get a work out, do it with a minimum of bittul zman. Makes sense to me<br>
OTOH, for those who were too out of shape for basketball softball might have been the optimum<br><br><br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>