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size=2><BR>RMM appended my name to the following quoted material, but I did
not write it (although I don't disagree with it). I'm particular
about my writing and like to be praised or blamed for my own writing, not for
anybody else's.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>> ... In any case, we<BR>> see clearly from the Ran that
non-kosher is objectively poison and<BR>> harmful even if you eat it
b'heter.<BR>><BR>> ....We see clearly that this idea that any non-kosher
food is metamtem<BR>> halev, meaning it has intrinsic effects, even if eaten
b'heter<<<BR>><BR>==end quoted material==<BR><BR><BR><BR>RMM then
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<DIV>>>We also all know that RSRH loves
symbolic/educational<BR>interpretations of mitzvot....<BR><BR><BR>In Bamidbar
Rabbah, Parshat Chukat, a gentile asks Rabbi Yohanan about<BR>the ritual of the
parah adumah. Rabbi Yochanan makes something up<BR>about magic and hocus-pocus,
and the gentile leaves..... The mitzvah is purely symbolic and<BR>educational,
without any intrinsic spiritual
reality.<<<BR><BR>>>>>><BR>My feeling is that RMM is
reading too much into Hirsch. Shlomo Hamelech said -- precisely about
parah adumah -- "Amarti echkama vehi rechokah mimeni." So it seems
doubtful to me that RMM has plumbed the depths of what Shlomo Hamelech wrestled
with.<BR><BR></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby
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