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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>From: "Chana" <A href="mailto:Chana@Kolsassoon.org.uk">Chana@Kolsassoon.org.uk</A><BR><BR><BR>>So
I'm not sure why Rabbi Kaminetsky thinks it is obvious that
the<BR>>non-scholar will answer that a non-Jew is preferable. It appears to
me that<BR>>no, the non-scholar will answer that the Jewish woman who
violates niddah<BR>>is preferable.<BR><BR>>So I'm confused. Why does Rabbi
Kaminetsky believe (wrongly, IMHO) that the<BR>>non-scholar will answer that
a non-Jew is preferable? [--RMM]<BR><BR>The point is though, that RYK is not
talking about a non scholar, or even,<BR>IMHO a beginning or inexperienced
scholar. He is talking about a full<BR>fledged scholar.
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<DIV><BR>....That said, as I have said when this question has come up
previously, I have<BR>a certain difficulty with RYK's example, because, quite
simply, it requires<BR>a judging of the teshuva unlikelihood of the couple in
question. </DIV>
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<DIV><BR>....But where one senses that there is no real knowledge of the make-up
of even<BR>some of the key trees in the wood, conclusions about the nature of
the wood<BR>as a whole does come across as somewhat premature. Perhaps
more normally<BR>somebody attempting to be a genuine scholar puts their ideas of
the nature<BR>of the wood on hold while they learn about each and every tree,
and what RTK<BR>is, IMHO doing, is reminding somebody at the end of that process
that they<BR>then need to stand back and look at the wood as well, but, I
suspect he<BR>might say, only
then.<BR><BR><BR>Regards<BR><BR>Chana</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>I was very flattered that R'n CL recognized my preference for looking at
the wood and not just a tree here and there -- until I saw that pronoun
"he." "He might say....?" Then I realized that RTK, at the end
there, was a typo for RYK -- R' Yakov Kaminetsky. He most likely would,
indeed, say that at the end of the process one must look at the wood and not
just [some of] the trees.</DIV>
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<DIV>Here we might almost segue into a discussion of that perennial, so
misunderstood subject: what is da'as Torah?</DIV>
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<DIV>And here we might well find two examples of what da'as Torah would say
about the specific issues we've been discussing lately.</DIV>
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<DIV>1. re intermarriage -- for the masses of non-observant Jews -- what's
better, marrying in (but not keeping taharas hamishpacha) or marrying out?
Da'as Torah would say it is better for the individual and for Klal Yisrael if
non-frum Jews marry Jews, marry in.</DIV>
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<DIV>2. re hair covering for married women. Da'as Torah would say it is
required for married women and not required for single women, no matter how many
interesting and learned articles you may read about, um, splitting hairs.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><BR></FONT><B><FONT color=#0000ff>--Toby
Katz<BR>==========<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"></B>--------------------</FONT></DIV>
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