<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:35 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;">
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:49:47PM -0400, Richard Wolpoe wrote:<br>
:> When a mitzvah is an os, does it stand on its own, or does HQBH presume<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">:> we know the history? And how much history beyond what we're given in the<br>
:> Torah?<br>
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: HBKH was talking to the dor hmidbar they got the message. The message was<br>
: forgotten.<br>
: The entire point says 2 things:<br>
: good news There was a G-d talking to Refugees from Egypt who understood<br>
: Egyptian metaphors<br>
: bad news: later speculation lost he simple points and was either<br>
: darshaening or rationalizing. But as we several of Rambam's hypotheses in<br>
: the Moreh have proven true.<br>
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</div>Then what kind of os is it if for the majority of its history no one<br>
knows what the symbol signified?</blockquote><div><br>People forget 3,00 halachos after oshe died. This was probably OS that was well-uinderstood, fogotten, and restored. What's the problem?<br><br>IF HKBH watned us to know the REALemeaning sooner He would have given us aracheology Sooner. He choose t oreveal it to us later. Same with Cairo Geniza, Dead Ssee Scrolls ,etc. Are you being meharheir after middosov of HKBH why HE waited until the lat 150 years to make sense out of long forgotten texts and traditions? </div>
<div><br>What about Techeiles. How come NOW it is availalble and ot to Rashi Rabeinu Tam etc. Are WE better than they? does it bother anyone that we have techieles TODAY and they did not? Again what's the point?<br>
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Tir'u baTov!<br>
-Micha<br>
</blockquote></div><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>