<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:19 PM, 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;">
RJR wrote:<br>
:> Question- How could it be that the earlier rishonim were unaware of<br>
:> the severity of the "prohibition"?<br>
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Someone answered on Areivim (typo? attempt at saving reputation?):<br>
: Default answer: the "Zohar" hadn't been found yet. Cough.<br>
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Let's assume the most "frum" position, that the Zohar we have today is<br>
as RaShBY wrote it.<br>
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Even if known to the intelligentsia, no one would have made it a basis<br>
of pesaq until more widely available. The publication of the Zohar<br>
radically changed Yahadus simply by making it possible to give these<br>
ideas center stage.<br>
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SheTir'u baTov!<br>
-micha<br>
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<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote></div><br><br>So if CI [or others] object to [lemashal] Me'iri creeping into the Halchic process at a "later date" how come the Zohar is allowed to creep in after being outside he Halchi process all those years?<br>
<br>Or Lemashal, let's say a Midrash existed in the eraof mIdrashim -- let's call it Midrash Rav Papa. . Poskim know about it , but didn't pasken from it for let's 1,000 years. What could change and make this Midrash Rav Papa a source text for Halachic practice - especially one that would alter EXISTING practice [as opposed to just creating an uncontrovesial minhag]? <br>
<br clear="all">Even if Midrash RashBY was a 100% authentic Midrash, it would seem to be lich'ora an 'aggadic" document not a Halachic one.<br><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>
see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>