<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:27 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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Which has nothing to do with our discussion, which as I wrote (three<br>
times now) our disagreement is limited to the problem of ta'am hamitzvah.<br>
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Tir'u baTov!<br>
-Micha<br>
--</blockquote></div><br>One of my yekke friends inthe heights used to go ballistic ANY time I gave a ta'am hamitzva at the Shabbos table, EVEN when I protested I was only quoting sefer Hachinuch. It is as if the Ta'amei Hamitzvot are on the slippery slope of obviating observance once the ta'am goes away <br>
<br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Totafos bein einekha will have common meaning because<br>
people have their eyes before their brains, so that tefillin shel rosh<br>
naturally gets associated with sight and thought.</blockquote><div><br>And the same Ta'am works for Tzadukkim too- eyes and brains jsut lower down the "totem pole" <br></div><br>But the os is a straw man anyway. Who ever said people EVER understood ta'amim the way WE do.<br>
<br>Bottom line, the Hiinuch favors Ramban over Rambam re: the Ta'am of the isur Bassar Echalav [with apologies to R. Akiva] but archaeology seems to support Rambam. To me that is HILGHLY informative and REAL Torah. <br clear="all">
<br>and the Hinush is completely puzzled about se'or and devash until he FINDS a meaning. But as we know in the course of "<i>Man's Seach for Meaning </i>" [with apologies to Viktro Frank] such rationalziations MIGHT nob be l' amito shel davar. And if archaeology explains the ta'am as part of of HKBH's OWN edeclaration IN SEFEAR VAIKRAH of kma'aseh eretz Mitrayyim lo sa'su, why do I need to whip a dead horse [Eight Belles?] and stick to a reason that USED to have significance way back when?<br>
<br>Obviously some people feel a need to re-introduce Te'cheiles even thought dozens of generations had an OS without it. Nu?!<br><br> <br><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>