<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Micha Berger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</a>></span> 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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RJR rejoined:<br>
: imho this is a specific case of a more general question - is the<br>
: halachic process reproducible?<br>
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To which I answered that I think it isn't. After all, which mistakes<br>
become gezeiros involve the history and what mistakes were being made --<br>
not only the process.<br>
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Tir'u baTov!<br>
-Micha<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>Crossing threads<br>I think that Sefira originally consisted of 3 issues<br><ol><li>Nissuin</li><li>Tispoeres</li><li>Some limitation on m'lcahah</li></ol>[regardless of the orginating trigger]<br>
and that adding humros is an error<br><br>UNLESS some new aveilus was added for new, subsequent reasons to the original minhag - EG the Crusades <br><br>Otherwise these Humros are as questionable as adding humros corn syrup and peanut oil to Qitniyyos on Passover. <br>
<br>IOW w/o additional triggers, it is simply revisionistic to add to the orginal minhag as originally formulated.<br><br>NB: I am not addressing the span of time aspect, EG 33 vs. 48.<br><br>-- <br>Shalom uVRacha<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>
see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a><br><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nishma-Minhag/">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nishma-Minhag/</a><br><br>