<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">< What I was saying in my earlier post is that I think the MC rules out</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> any first-order taamei hamitzvos for dinim derabbanan, and they are all</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> to protect / help implement de'oraisos which have real te'amim.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Chanukah, Purim, and Hallel do "help implement de'oraisos". We are</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">obligated to acknowledge and celebrate nissim and yeshu'os; chazal</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">"merely" coined standard ways to do so.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Netilas yadayim *is* there to protect deOraisos. Or at least was, back</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">before we gave up an taharah. The whole notion that by default hands</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">are tamei was a gezeirah, not a taqanah.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">In neither case do we need to assert that there was some metaphysical</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">danger to avoid or metaphysical benefit we would have missed that the</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Torah hadn't already forced us to take into account. ></span><div><br></div><div>I am not claiming anything metaphysical. It just seems to me that not all rabbinical decrees are</div><div>to help a deoraisa.</div><div><br></div><div>I am certainly not baki enough to go through every rabbinical law but certainly some others include eruvin, most importantly almost all berachot, davening (certainly according to those that disagree with Rambam), shevat brachot. As I said before there are loads of decrees in monetary matters that are not just nezikin including prozbul, takanat hashuk, bar metzra. Again I would have to review the 3 Babas to come up with a more detailed list. Even in hilchot shabbat/yomtov we have candle lighting and other aspects of oneg, much of the seder, <br><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div>
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