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size=2>From: "kennethgmiller@juno.com"
<kennethgmiller@juno.com><BR>>>Okay, here's my guess: Could it be
that this halacha is based on the presumption that people would prefer to
observe the relatively easy halachos of delayed information, and that they did
not want to observe the relatively difficult halachos of timely
information?<BR><BR>If so, then the next question is: What changed? Why do we
prefer the full burden of the timely-information halachos? It can't be because
of the general trend towards stricter halachos, can it?<<<BR><BR>Akiva
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size=2>Perhaps it was because premature death was so common that people would
have been constantly sitting shiva for parents, sibling and r'l children in the
old days. </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><STRONG></STRONG><BR><B>--Toby Katz<BR>=============<BR></B>"If you
don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; <BR>if you do read the newspaper
you are misinformed." <BR>-- Mark Twain<BR>Read *Jewish World Review* at <A
href="http://jewishworldreview.com/">http://jewishworldreview.com/</A></FONT><FONT
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