<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 3:31 AM Micha Berger via Avodah <<a href="mailto:avodah@lists.aishdas.org">avodah@lists.aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 10:11:10PM +0000, Joseph Kaplan via Avodah wrote:<br>
: It may, indeed, be that something changed. Or possibly not and it<br>
: may have been simply that this was an issue that the CC cared deeply<br>
: about and found that there wasn't as much halachic discussion about it<br>
: as he thought there should be...<br>
<br></blockquote><div>R' MB: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
My question is less about the CC and more about the lack of anyone prior<br>
to him.<br></blockquote><div><SNIP></div><div><br></div><div>R' MB and R' JK put forward interesting arguments. A point occurred to me but I have no idea if it's correct. When did it become common for people to write halachah seforim on a single topic? It may just be too late at night, but I can't think of a single example offhand. Is it possible that the CC's pioneering look at Lashon Hara was not only that he pioneered looking at it, but that he was a pioneer of what we would call today (in Lakewood, at least), "specializing in a miktzo'a"?</div><div><br></div><div>KT,</div><div>MYG</div></div></div>