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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:107%">A number of
times when the Talmud is ping-ponging back-and-forth trying to determine the
underlying reason for a difference of opinion, it will state that one of the
parties learned a din from a particular textual source, which the other party did
not (lo mishma lei)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:107%"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:107%">These seem
to come in a number of different flavors such as a possible extra letter (e.g. megillah
17b dvarim/hadvarim) or an extra word (eg bava metzia 27b mimenu). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:107%">I was thinking
that in other circumstances where such a letter or word appeared, there is no
debate, and the derivation is accepted by all.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:107%"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:107%">I was
wondering if anybody had seen anything which indicated that a particular rabbi
tended to (or not to) use such a source as
a general rule and/or is it possible that the decision as to whether to use or
not you such a rule was dependent on what that Rabbi already believed was the
pre-existing halacha that needed to be
obtained?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:107%">KT<br>
Joel Rich</span></p></div>