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What’s the chilik between a kasha and a shaila?
ones made from buckwheat otay!!!!
What you ask your rav is a shaila. A kasha (or kushya) is something you may have on a piece of gemara.
A kasha is a question that is meant to refute something. A shaila is an inquiry into an unknown.
Example:
Shaila: What’s the din regarding Cholov Yisroel?
Kahsa: How could you say that? Didn’t you agree with Posek X when he said Y?
The Wolf
I believe a “kasha” is stam a question of curiosity or a nagging issue that one wants clarity or an opinion on. A shaila is something you are looking for a psak halacha on.
Wolf is right. A kasha is an attack question. A shaila is a request for information.
??? Translates as hard a Kushiya is a query about a dificulty
???? translates as Question
ones made from buckwheat otay!!!!
Goq, you little rascal!
Literally, kasha means difficulty. Hence, Shticky Guy, Wolf, and Pashutateh Yid are correct. I would explain it by saying that it refers to an inconsistency; the statement might be “difficult” because it contradicts a different statement made by the same person, or made by someone of greater authority, or logically inconsistent. A shaila is a query,often for psak halacha, but not necessarily.
Goq~ “ones made from buckwheat otay!!!!” tooooo funny! 😀
my take is that kasha is in Learning (not for halacha), shaila is in Halacha
:p> mbachur <d:
You give a teretz to a kasha or to a shaila?
Answer to a kasha = teretz
Answer to a shaila = teshuva.
The Wolf
ty daas, always , your both always a good audience
In a more broad sense, a Shaila can be answered from a small subset of responses (Yes/No, Mutar/Asur, etc. like a multiple choice question). A Kasha’s response is more open ended (like an essay question).
e.g.
Rebbi, is it ok to eat before davening? –> Shaila
Why? –> Kasha
Answer to a shaila = teshuva.
That’s what I wanted to say, you beat me to it. Shu”t!
Why? –> Kasha
IMO, Why? –> shaila (usually).
I actually learned the distinction very early on. My ninth grade rebbe actually had us break down the Gemara we were learning into statements, and label the “type” of statement that was being made.
Among the statement types were: kasha, teretz, shaila, t’shuva, etc. Because of that exercise, I learned the difference at a very early age.
The Wolf
Why? –> Kasha
I’m not sure that I agree with that. I think a “why” question could also be a shaila.
In the exercise I mentioned above, the question “m’nah hani mili” (which, in essence boils down to “why”) was categorized as a shaila since it was an inquiry, and not an attempt at refutation.
The Wolf
The reason they are used only in that context, seems to be that Shaala means to ask. Its verb, Sho’al, can be used as, borrowed. Kasha, is a statement; you are stating that something is wrong, or not smooth.
And on the same token, Tshuva, just means a response, while Terutz means to straighten out.
Both are questions. A shaila is a question of a halacha that one needs to know about something that directly affects a person (is it kosher or traif if a drop of milk fell into the cholent pot). A kasha is a question to help understand material one has learned and which psoes some difficulty or begs another question, i.e., So if Rav said this, why does Abayei say that?).
OP-
Why do you ask- are you planning to make “shaila” your next screen name? 🙂
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