<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:11 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;">
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If I may add to RRW's constellation of interlocking reasons:<br>
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Tanakh is a seifer mussar. The primary lessons of all the naarative is<br>
to provide archetypes of people, behavioral examples to emulate or take<br>
warning from. The nevi'im acharonim are rife with behavioral warnings<br>
and instruction.<br>
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Why would chumash be any different?<br>
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And thus, the text says "ayin tacvhas ayin" because morally, the person<br>
needs to realize on some level that's what he deserves. However, the<br>
TSBP gives us halakhah.<br>
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(This is sort of a (2b).)<br>
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Tir'u baTov!<br>
-Micha<br>
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Micha Berger </font></blockquote></div><br><br>Not only a sefer Mussar, but a description leading to our visaulizaion of an ideal society. By keeping that ideal in our mind's eye, we have that as our traget, Hazal take care of the pragmatic adjustments needs to make Torah work in the real world.<br>
<br>This ties in with unenshalm parim sefaseinu - except that instead of LIP korbanos I am suggesting imagined Korbanos, seen in the mind''s eye<br><br>Thus the Nachmanidean symbolism of a Chatas - wherein the sinner sees himself as worthy of having is OWN blood shed - still works but w/o a PHYSICAL symbol but a textual one instead. <br clear="all">
<br>And this is OUR musaph Avodah on YK isntead of the phsyically REAL Avodah done by the KBG in the BhM, We recite it and re-eneact it to an extant insted of doing it physically.<br><br>And we sort of re-enact the Exodus on Seder night. It's not just a comemoration, it's a kind of revival of the original experience. <br>
<br>Re: ayyin tachas Ayyin, Rav Gorelick is my source for saying that this is what the perpetrator DESERVES, and he should realize that. I thought he was paraphrasing thee RambaN, but I saw somewhere that the Rashbam says this. Maybe both did.<br>
<br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>