<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:47 PM, <a href="mailto:kennethgmiller@juno.com">kennethgmiller@juno.com</a> <<a href="mailto:kennethgmiller@juno.com">kennethgmiller@juno.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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To me, a most telling comment is that "Neither could she be prevailed on to alter her ways, nor would an experienced rabbi even try." Despite the illogic of it, the two streams ARE compatible, in an "eilu v'eilu" kind of way, I suppose. The men learn their way, and the women learn their way, and if there are halachic differences, well, we'll muddle through somehow. Because that's how G-d wants it.<br>
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Akiva Miller<br></blockquote></div><br>A simple way of thinking about it is to view both text and minetic-masorah as 2 valid sources sources and to investigate them both analytically. When they conflict you can make the usual dialectics and arrive at some kind of synthesis<br>
<br>The point is to avoid such pronouncements as "text always triumphs" or my grandfather's custom trumps, etc. In the extreme both can be silly. <br><br>Illustrations: <br>TEXT: The Beis Yoseph says that there si a prohibition of eating milk and FISH together. Darchei Moshe [Rema] points out that this is a t'aus sofer. Whether that criticism is a fact or a very educated guess is irrelevant, the Rema's point MUST be accounted for in the mix.<br>
<br>MIMETICS: One's grandfather might have slept in for minyan every year following the first Seder. That does not make it Halachah or even Minhag.<br><br>I have been intending to post the Aruch hashulchan's critique of custom's in hilchos Megillah. Now the AhS is considered highly pro-mimeitc but he makes some very specific [harsh?] parameters as to waht minhaggim oare valid. Rema rejects certain Minhaggim - which is why I trust his judgment when he supports a Minhag- becayse his reaction is NOT knee-jerk but a considered opininion. <br>
<br>OTOH those with sweeping opinions are harder to accept.<br>All Rules are flawed - including this one --smile-- [well at least the human ones --smile--]<br> -- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>
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