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On 5/10/2012 4:14 PM, hankman wrote:
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<div>Let me clarify or sum up my position (until proven wrong <img
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alt="Smile" src="cid:part1.06030206.01090405@starways.net"> Things
are asur until permitted. At the time of maase bereishis as we see from
the “pshetel from the Sifsei Chachomim I poster previously, the default
is that things were asur if not specifically permitted. Certainly this
is only wrt to achila and hana’a or every movement (lifting your hand
etc) or any other mundane thing would need a heter. This seems to come
from the musag that the world is not yours and you need reshus to be
nenhneh from it – perhaps in the same vein, the rationale for asur
lihanos min ha’olam bli bracho. Then HKB’H explicitly permitted ONLY
vegetation for achila to man and although in Ber. 1:28 Adam is given
memshala over the creatures of the world he is still not permitted to
eat them as the Or Chachayim points out, but perhaps this was matir the
other hano’os from the animals such as use of their fur etc. which
otherwise would have remained asur to Adam. Then the Mabul and Noach is
permitted to eat all. Then we arrive at matan Torah where the norm is
now all is permitted to be eaten (except perhaps as I tried to opine in
an earlier post) those things that were not yet in existence and
therefore still operating under the original assumption of asur until
permitted. I think this is a fair mehalach even if perhaps you can poke
some holes here and there that I might try to fix with a bandaid.</div>
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I disagree. Ha-motzi me-chaveiro, alav ha-raaya. If you're going to
declare that people (even people at the time of maaseh bereishit)
didn't have the right to eat without being granted the right
explicitly, you have to prove it. Not just assert it and wait for
others to disprove your assertion.<br>
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Hashem says "pru urvu." Does that mean that procreation was forbidden
until He said that? And what's your distinction between eating and
lifting your hand? Both are natural to the form and character that
Hashem gave us. Hashem owns everything, including us, so when I lift
my hand, am I not using something of His? Should I not have to get
permission? That's the implication of what you're saying, and I don't
see any justification for it.<br>
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Lisa<br>
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