Reply To: A Lack Of Sensitivity

Home Forums Inspiration / Mussar A Lack Of Sensitivity Reply To: A Lack Of Sensitivity

#795216
gavra_at_work
Participant

I got to baseball games and you always see religious people there, however I dont think ive ever seen a Chassidic person at one

I have.

BS”D

As for the OP, I completely disagree, but your logic is sound.

You are mixing up two different concepts (I assume you have never learned Gemorah, so I’ll try to explain).

There are halachos, and then there are the mechanics that go behind (and cause) the halachos to make them what they are. For example, We know that if two people are holding a Tallis, and both calim it is theirs, they split it. That is the Halacha.

The Gemorah has a number of dafim discussing why this is so. The Rishonim and Acronim have literally thousands of pages and Torah discussing the why.

For some people, the what is enough, and they don’t want to know “why”. For others, they need to know the “why”. And for a third group (which I would place myself into, as well as others on the “Tzitzis” thread and other threads), we know the “what”, and understand the “why” as part of Limud HaTorah, and something that is a mitza to work at.

So when we say the Chaluka of the Talis is due to a Vadai or Safek, or Texting is Uvda D’chol, a Dirabbanan or D’Oraysah, it is only to find the truth of the Torah.

What bothered me in the “skirts” question was that the questioner did not seem to want the answer, but had an agenda. And Torah can not be discussed with an agenda, either from the left (Skirts should be muttar) or the right (less than four inches is Znus).