<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:45 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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Nor is it "touchy feely" nor "greater good". It's a well informed notion<br>
of ratzon haBorei.<br>
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Tir'u baTov!<br>
-Micha<br>
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Thsi kind of artgumentation is beyond slippery slope. It is pandroa's
box time. every humran ad every kula can override every halacha with
such a methodology E.g. The nthere can NEVER be a to'eh bidvar hamishna becaesu Retzon haroei trumps all! Shades of Nadav and Avinhu and the hamishim umassyim ish. Do for the sake of hasehm EVEN if it is not within Halachic parameteres!<br>
</div></div><br><br><br>Vritaully no Rishon brought in any kabbalh into psak. and generally kept out Midrash, too - [except for Minhag.] See e.g. Noda bihuda re: Sandek at a bris in which he states explicitly re: the Rema/Maahril's use of a Midrash based Minhag that he deos not discuss anything if it is not Talmudic. Now the GRA claims the Midrash is a red-herring and that the source is the Sefear hassidim Furthermore Rav Schwab rejeected Sefer Hassidim as a Halchic source althoug hI am confident that it was written to convery Retzon habore.<br>
<br>And for that matter, virtually every devittn and anti-nomian sect has made the same agrument about Halachah. This is the early [and rejected] anti-nomian Hassidic notion that to daven later is better than to follwo the zmanim in massechet Brachots And in fact a very simlar argument is in Matthew re: netillas Yadayim that "you Pharisees follow your elders instead of the Will of G-d." Ayein sham [ch. 15 iirc]<br>
<br>I'm sure Reform would claim that they saved Jews from Baptism. and I persaonlly know a C rabbi that hammers away every year that if we only dropped Kitniyyos more people would observe the laws of Passover. If minhag avos wer REALLY dea, why NOT drop Kitniyos? Why NOT throw out all rules based upon al titosh Toras Imecha for the greater Retzon HKBH?<br>
<br>I know a C rabbi who advocates that all kaorbanos should be thrown out entirely because the nevi'im railed against it. He claims THAT is the Retzon haborei, lama li rov vicheichem! <br><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>
RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>