<div dir="ltr"><div>His teshuva seems to fit a meta-halachic theory I've heard from a teacher that many times Chazal knew the mesorah/law/torah she'bal'peh, but didn't necessarily know the reason and they (to put it bluntly) guessed at the reason. I've heard the kashrus status of bee honey described in that way -- i.e., nobody disputed that bee honey was kosher, but they were incorrect when they ascribed a scientific reason for it.</div><div><br></div><div>How might that apply to other situations? (Killing lice on shabbos?). It is a general meta-halachic rule? If not, when is it applied and when not? Or is this a post-hoc justification? I have no idea...<br></div><div><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">
Another teshuvah by R' Asher Weiss. I'm sharing it for the metahalakhah<br>
implications. Must heseibah be on the left even now that we know there<br>
is no greater risk of choking by reclining on the right? <br>
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