http://text.rcarabbis.org/new-tradition-424-winter-2009/ Tradition's Blog of Orthodox Jewish Thought Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:29:58 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://text.rcarabbis.org/new-tradition-424-winter-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-646 Skeptic Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:18:30 +0000 http://text.rcarabbis.org/?p=798#comment-646 Where is the copy of the tshuva of the Bet Meir promised in R. Broyde's letter? Where is the copy of the tshuva of the Bet Meir promised in R. Broyde’s letter?

]]> http://text.rcarabbis.org/new-tradition-424-winter-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-626 RJK Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:22:02 +0000 http://text.rcarabbis.org/?p=798#comment-626 Perhaps we should consider giving the title of rabbi to our luminaries that author Tradition articles. Perhaps we should consider giving the title of rabbi to our luminaries that author Tradition articles.

]]> http://text.rcarabbis.org/new-tradition-424-winter-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-625 joel rich Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:24:24 +0000 http://text.rcarabbis.org/?p=798#comment-625 Just came across this foot note in the R' Lichtenstein article in the latest Tradition :"See Horiyot 13a,where, on the one hand, technical factors of one's formal status in the scale of Yohasin is presented as a ground for priority, while, on the other hand, at the bottom, personal spiritual qualities are assigned supremacy. Currently the element of Yohasin as a yardstick of triage is relatively neglected- whether because, as R' Moshe Feinstein held, its use is rather impractical in the modern reality, it was no longer decisive, or some other reason." {Me - Someone help me please - I keep seeing various formulations of this type of construct and it keeps sounding to me like - we don't know why or things change, deal with it} KT Just came across this foot note in the R’ Lichtenstein article in the latest Tradition :”See Horiyot 13a,where, on the one hand, technical factors of one’s formal status in the scale of Yohasin is presented as a ground for priority, while, on the other hand, at the bottom, personal spiritual qualities are assigned supremacy. Currently the element of Yohasin as a yardstick of triage is relatively neglected- whether because, as R’ Moshe Feinstein held, its use is rather impractical in the modern reality, it was no longer decisive, or some other reason.” {Me – Someone help me please – I keep seeing various formulations of this type of construct and it keeps sounding to me like – we don’t know why or things change, deal with it}
KT

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