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<DIV>In Avodah Digest, Vol 26, Issue 171 dated 8/19/2009 "Rich, Joel"
<JRich@sibson.com><BR>writes:</DIV>
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face=Arial><BR><BR><BR>More generally in some cases we say X is different than
Y and so the prohibition of Y does not apply and in other cases we say lo plog
[--RET]<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>>>
imho this is a specific case of a more general question - is the halachic
process reproducible? <<<BR><BR>KT<BR>Joel Rich</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>>>>><BR>The answer is no, not absolutely reproducible, because
the continuum of possibilities is often fuzzy rather than yes/no (as I just
wrote about the Lo Plug question). Consider this (admittedly inexact)
metaphor: You could compare the halachic process to the game of
chess. Given the rules of chess, will every game between two world chess masters
end exactly the same way? Will the configuration of pieces on a chess
board be exactly the same after every game? Of course not. Some
configurations, of course, will never occur because the rules of chess preclude
them. But within the constraints allowed by the rules, there are many
possible configurations of the end game. Still, there are definite
constraints on what is and what is not possible.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><B>--Toby
Katz<BR>==========<BR><BR><BR><BR>_____________________</B></FONT></DIV></FONT><DIV CLASS="aol_ad_footer" ID="ba0daca39e870d60c8302c494d7cfa1e"><br/><font style="color:black;font:normal 10pt arial,san-serif;"> <hr style="margin-top:10px"/></font></DIV></BODY></HTML>