<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:49 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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On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:35:54AM -0400, Richard Wolpoe wrote:<br>
</div>: I have been intending to post the Aruch hashulchan's critique of custom's in<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">: hilchos Megillah. Now the AhS is considered highly pro-mimeitc but he makes<br>
: some very specific [harsh?] parameters as to waht minhaggim oare valid.<br>
: Rema rejects certain Minhaggim - which is why I trust his judgment when he<br>
: supports a Minhag- becayse his reaction is NOT knee-jerk but a considered<br>
: opininion.<br>
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</div>The AhS isn't really "pro mimetic", or else he would assume people pasqen<br>
by seeing what's done, not by hitting books like AhS.<br>
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Rather, he believes in the formal ("textual") authority of minhag avos.<br>
Perhaps even using the assumption that minhag avos can be taken as<br>
evidence of undocumented formal pesaqim (or ones that were documented,<br>
but the teshuvah/seifer was lost). Much like historians' claims about<br>
minhag Ashkenaz coming from a parallel mesorah to the stream that produced<br>
the Bavli, that was less completely recorded in the midrashei halakhah<br>
and the Y-mi.<br>
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IOW, mimeticism is knowing what a kezayis is from memory of what tatty<br>
ate at his seider, what zeidi ate, what the rav took in shul, etc...<br>
Textual use of minhag avos is defending RCN's kezayis over the CI's<br>
because those people must have relied on something.<br>
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Which is why the bulk of the AhS is finding textual support of pesaqim,</blockquote><div><br>I am not sure precisely what you mean - iow this is fuzzy to me - but this does not appear to be based upon any hard statistical evidence...<br>
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even when it's clear that the conclusion is overwhelmingly whatever was<br>
the usual practice in Litta.<br>
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Tir'u baTov!<br>
-Micha<br>
</div></blockquote></div><br>I mroe or less concur with this re: AhS but I do not quite feel he is more Litvish Centric than the MB is Mussar-Centric.<br><br>Actuallyin framing the issues, the AhS is often Rambam-Centric and he often drills down from the Rambam into the salient debates.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>