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September 23, 2013 1:09 am at 1:09 am #1058041TorahUmadda-731-MelechYavanHarashaParticipant
“For those of you who don’t accept rayos from rishonim because they often mean the opposite of what they say
Who are you addressing with this??”
I am addressing you. To quote:
“Now about rishonim. Firstly, the simple reading is not always the correct understanding. Sometimes rishonim use language that nearly black-and-white indicates one side of a chakira when they hold of the other. That is a general rule of learning.”
And: ” You need a rebbe for rishonim too.”
There are two types of situations where you are trying to prove something:
1) A vaccuum
2) Not in a vaccuum
I never said that I don’t accept rayas from rishonim. The point I actually did make was that once there already exists a LEGITIMATE shitta for “x”, then, since it is axiomatically true that rishonim SOMETIMES employ lashon that to US is misleading, YOU cannot on your own reading bring a raya against it.
In other words, this situation is not in a vaccuum. Therefore, I don’t accept rayas from rishonim that are based on your understanding. Even a legit posek, gadol, etc who cites them as a raya is merely entitled to argue, but his opinion hardly invalidates the shitta.
But to emphasize the point you’re clearly missing, there is a difference between a raya brought from your puny, incapable, and lacking mind vs one brought by someone with DT, etc, who’s legit.
If you want to keep the statement, you can quote me that “You don’t accept rayas brought from rishonim by random nobodies who think they know how to read a rishon, against an established and legitimate shitta.
September 23, 2013 1:12 am at 1:12 am #1058042TorahUmadda-731-MelechYavanHarashaParticipantit isn’t muchach poskim know those exotic sources. I spoke to many tremendous talmidei chachamim who didn’t know they exist.
I assumed R’ Elyashiv knew of at least some of them. (The one I asked answered with R’ Elyashivs shitta, that he heard from him personally.)
September 23, 2013 1:13 am at 1:13 am #1058043Patur Aval AssurParticipantThe Malbim in Artzos Hachaim says:
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September 23, 2013 1:14 am at 1:14 am #1058044TorahUmadda-731-MelechYavanHarashaParticipantAlso, your point of the evidence not being good enough is nowhere near the same argument as you were making earlier, that we now have a Mesorah to not wear T’cheiles.
Correct. Because that’s what I was told by the one to whom I asked the shaila.
September 23, 2013 1:18 am at 1:18 am #1058045TorahUmadda-731-MelechYavanHarashaParticipantIt is ironic that in this thread we have someone who has taken a long screen name to indicate that “secular knowledge is the equivalent of an evil king who tried to uproot Torah Judaism”.
That is incorrect. Secular knowledge is not, in and of itself, the equivelant of “evil king. . .”. Secular knowledge raised upon the same pedestal as Torah is. For that blurs the distinction between that which is kodesh and that which is chol. Etc. (For the record, “Cheil (ches-yud-lamed) Yavan” = 120 = “madda”. Meaning that the army of yavan is secular knowledge. For it has enormous latent danger within it.)
September 23, 2013 1:22 am at 1:22 am #1058046Patur Aval AssurParticipant“There are no dissenting opinions, hence I don’t quote them.
Wow. This is beyond arrogant. But at least now you’ve made it abundantly clear that this is agenda driven, and that you’re uninterested in hearing anything else to the contrary. “Don’t let the facts get in the way of the truth.”
Beyond arrogant? I claim that in 13 pages of discourse on this topic there has not been any dissenting opinion that says that there is an inyan to keep the status quo. Go find one such dissenting opinion in the 13 pages and I will retract my statement.
(Your anonymous rosh yeshiva who may or not hold this is not a dissenting opinion)
September 23, 2013 3:42 am at 3:42 am #1058047Josh31Participant“the army of yavan is secular knowledge”
That is quite a hostile attitude towards knowledge.
Those with hostility to general knowledge tend to avoid Torah learning that has too much to do with any secular knowledge.
September 23, 2013 5:07 am at 5:07 am #1058048Sam2ParticipantTUM: I would just like to point out that you are making a gross insult against Torah learning. “The RIshonim employ Lashon that to us is misleading.”??!! That’s a joke. Why ever learn? It should be Assur to open a Rishon by your logic unless you are a Gadol, because you know that you will potentially distort the Torah to the opposite of what it means. It’s ridiculous. It’s absurd. Sit down and learn the Rishonim. They are very clear in what they say. And we have Achronim to point out when they are potentially apparently being Soseir themselves and what the potential reasons for that are. But the RIshonim mean the opposite of what they say? It’s a joke. Go invent your own Torah and claim that’s what a Rishon really means because, after all, we can’t know what it means. (Unless we’re a “Gadol” and have “Da’as Torah”. But how could we get that in the first place if we misunderstood all the Rishonim until we achieved that point.) Honestly, you have nothing to add to this discussion. Say you don’t know enough to discuss this Sugya. That’s fine. But don’t go around throwing made-up axioms into a Sugya that do nothing but distort actual Talmud Torah.
September 23, 2013 6:11 am at 6:11 am #1058049ChachamParticipant“it isn’t muchach poskim know those exotic sources. I spoke to many tremendous talmidei chachamim who didn’t know they exist.
I assumed R’ Elyashiv knew of at least some of them.” (
it isn’t muchach bchlal that rav elayshiv zatzal knew a teshuvos maharil mksav yad.
“The one I asked answered with R’ Elyashiv’s shitta, that he heard from him personally.”
just curious what did he say is rav elyashivs shitta?
September 23, 2013 2:38 pm at 2:38 pm #1058050Patur Aval AssurParticipant“just curious what did he say is rav elyashivs shitta?”
I can’t say that this is what TorahUmadda’s posek said, but R’ Elyashiv in kovetz teshuvos siman 2 has a five pronged response:
1)The people who claim that they have found the chilazon may yet be proven wrong, just like last time
2)He quotes the Yeshuos Malko that it’s nignaz
3)The Bais Halevi’s objection might apply (i.e. this creature was always around)
4)Machlokes rishonim about adding chemicals which the S”A doesn’t pasken on
5)According to Rashi if it’s not real techeiles it’s a problem of min knaf
September 23, 2013 2:43 pm at 2:43 pm #1058051Patur Aval AssurParticipantThe first issue doesn’t exactly sound like a reason to not wear Techeiles. The second issue has been addressed by the dozens of sources that indicate that it is possible to find. The third issue is answeres because the previous generations never knew how to make the dye blue(assuming that techeiles is blue, ayin pages 7-9 b’arichus). The fourth issue also does not sound like something which would prevent wearing techeiles. The fifth issue has been addressed by the sources that show that on the strings in place of techeiles there is no problem.
This should not chas v’shalom be construed as a lack of kovod hatorah for R’ Elyashiv; I am merely presenting the responses.
September 23, 2013 5:41 pm at 5:41 pm #1058052TorahUmadda-731-MelechYavanHarashaParticipantI claim that in 13 pages of discourse on this topic there has not been any dissenting opinion that says that there is an inyan to keep the status quo. Go find one such dissenting opinion in the 13 pages and I will retract my statement.
This is ridiculous, as I was not referring to solely this thread. I can’t believe that I have to point this out.
(Your anonymous rosh yeshiva who may or not hold this is not a dissenting opinion)
Any more than yushka is Mashiach.
September 23, 2013 5:44 pm at 5:44 pm #1058053TorahUmadda-731-MelechYavanHarashaParticipant“the army of yavan is secular knowledge”
That is quite a hostile attitude towards knowledge.
Um, that is pointing out the “latent danger”. Furthermore, I was not being serious. It’s a gematria. Almost by definition, that implies that it’s cute drush. We can debate the merits and dangers of secular knowledge in a dedicated thread.
Those with hostility to general knowledge tend to avoid Torah learning that has too much to do with any secular knowledge.
Could you clarify what you mean by that exactly?
September 23, 2013 5:48 pm at 5:48 pm #1058054TorahUmadda-731-MelechYavanHarashaParticipantit isn’t muchach bchlal that rav elayshiv zatzal knew a teshuvos maharil mksav yad.
maybe, but it seemed to me that there are a few maare mekomos that all are saying the same point. I therefore assumed that it’s likely that R Elyashiv saw one or some of them.
September 23, 2013 5:59 pm at 5:59 pm #1058055TorahUmadda-731-MelechYavanHarashaParticipantSam2:
Hopefully, with a rebbe, one learns how to learn.
Furthermore, I’ll repeat what I responded to PAA earlier, that default is to assume they are talking straight, but here, the shitta already exists, making it possibly reasonable that there is an underlying premise the rishonim just don’t talk about. This is similar to the Maharals supposed revolution in how to learn aggadata — conventional scholarly understanding would have it that he invented a new approach that the rishonim en masse did not ascribe to whatsoever. However, the truth is that (some/most) rishonim did hold that aggadatas can be understood as describing mystical realities, etc, but they chose not to discuss, and even sometimes seem hostile towards it. I am not definitively claiming this is what is pshat here [techeiles], just a maybe.
September 23, 2013 6:20 pm at 6:20 pm #1058056TorahUmadda-731-MelechYavanHarashaParticipantTake a look at the levush mordeachai hakdama to bava kamma
September 23, 2013 7:48 pm at 7:48 pm #1058057Patur Aval AssurParticipant“However, the truth is that (some/most) rishonim did hold that aggadatas can be understood as describing mystical realities, etc, but they chose not to discuss, and even sometimes seem hostile towards it. I am not definitively claiming this is what is pshat here [techeiles], just a maybe.”
Who exactly says that the Rishonim agree with the Maharal yet wrote things that seem hostile to his approach? (Besides for you, an anonymous rosh yeshiva, and an anonymous posek)
September 23, 2013 7:59 pm at 7:59 pm #1058058Patur Aval AssurParticipant“Take a look at the levush mordeachai hakdama to bava kamma”
I assume you are referring to where he says that the words of the Rishonim are like mishnayos and a closed book. No one here is claiming that every Rishonic statement is abundantly clear and easily understandable. (Just open up to any daf in shas and you’ll find a tosfos that is anything but so.) However, that does not mean that when Rishonim make pashut basic statements we have to assume that the pashtus doesn’t make sense and they really mean something alltogether different. You can reverse engineer anything to make the gemara and rishonim support it but that is not intellectually honest. The intellectually honest approach is to figure out what the rishonim say, and if you have a gadol/posek/rosh yeshiva/rabbi who says something not in accordance with them then instead of automatically assuming that the rishonim must have meant the opposite of what they said, first ask youreslf if the gadol/posek/rosh yeshiva/rabbi is familiar with the rishonim under discussion and if it’s possible that he is arguing (perhaps based on other rishonim/acharonim).
September 23, 2013 10:57 pm at 10:57 pm #1058059zvei dinimParticipantTorahUmadda-731-MelechYavanHarasha: re Rav Elyashiv, Rav Elyahu Zilberman Shlit”a R”Y Aderes Eliyahu told me his Teshuvah was about janthina not murex (as is clear from the fact he refers to 3rd definite opinion for Tcheiles) — Saul Kaplan from Rechovot claims he found a process to dye blue from janthina but refuses to reveal the process.
September 24, 2013 1:11 am at 1:11 am #1058060Patur Aval AssurParticipant“This is ridiculous, as I was not referring to solely this thread. I can’t believe that I have to point this out.”
Semantics. Ok. Find me a dissenting opinion even outside of this thread.
“(Your anonymous rosh yeshiva who may or not hold this is not a dissenting opinion)
Any more than yushka is Mashiach.”
I think that there is a very clear difference between considering an anonymous rosh yeshiva who is arguing on everyone that preceeded him (rishonim,acharonim etc.) as a non-opinion and the possibility of yushka being mashiach.
September 24, 2013 6:14 am at 6:14 am #1058061ChachamParticipanttora umada-
I am just curious whatdid your posek say bsheim rav elyashiv ?(especially since he supposedly heard it directly from rav elyashiv)
can you fill me in?
i know many different claims bsheim rav elyashiv.
(including hearing from someone reliable that when asked if he wrote a teshuva that says it is a problem of min kanaf, he answered that there is no problem and he never wrote such a teshuva and he doesn’t know who did)
one thing vadai is that Rav MM Karp who is a talmid muvhak of Rav Elyashiv ztvk”l wears techeiles.
September 24, 2013 10:55 pm at 10:55 pm #1058062mariokartMemberwhats an example of something thats “patur avul assur”??
September 24, 2013 10:56 pm at 10:56 pm #1058063mariokartMembertorah731 – why cant you give us at least one name?
September 25, 2013 12:29 am at 12:29 am #1058065Patur Aval AssurParticipant“whats an example of something thats “patur avul assur”??”
puncturing an abcess to remove the pus (on shabbos) when you’re not doing it because of tzaar
September 25, 2013 1:38 am at 1:38 am #1058066Sam2Participantmariokart: Any Issur D’rbannan.
September 25, 2013 1:51 am at 1:51 am #1058067Patur Aval AssurParticipantChacham: You have said (and I said it also) that it’s clear from the gemara (eruvin 96b and menachos 43a) that the only blue dyes that chazal knew of were techeiles and kala ilan. Now this is only a raya if you assume that kala ilan specifically refers to plant indigo and nothing else (an assumption which you do in fact state based on rishonim who translate it as such. V’ayin levush ha’aron who proves this from the fact that the gemara in BK uses kala ilan in a sugya unrelated to techeiles). My problem is that I’m not so sure that this is an undisputable claim. The Kesef Mishna (hilchos tzitzis 2:8) says: ??? ????? ?? ????? ???? ??? ?? ?????, ?????? ?? ???? ??? ??? ???? ???? ???? ??? ???? ???? ????? ??? ??? ?????? which would seem to indicate that kala ilan refers to any imitation of techeiles. Thus, it could be that Murex Trunculus is (included in) kala ilan which would explain why there’s no specific warning in the gemara against using murex trunculus. (By the way I’m saying this all in a vacuum of all other rayos.) Do you know of any answer to this? Theoretically you could say that it can’t be because murex trunculus passed the chemical test, but perhaps one could argue that we’re not doing the gemara’s test properly.
September 25, 2013 3:19 am at 3:19 am #1058068Sam2ParticipantPAA: I thought I mentioned it above, but I thought the Gemara in Bava Kama was a Ra’aya that Kla Ilan can’t be indigo. Or, at least, not the plant. Maybe it could still be the color but that doesn’t work so well with that Gemara either.
September 25, 2013 3:38 am at 3:38 am #1058069Patur Aval AssurParticipantSam2: The Griz has a pshat that there are three levels. Techeiles, Kala Ilan, and other dyes. Techeiles never comes out, other dyes come out completely and Kala Ilan comes out but not completely. According to this pshat (feel free to have a different pshat)I think that it could be plant indigo. My only question is does it have to be specifically limited to plant indigo.
September 25, 2013 3:45 am at 3:45 am #1058070Patur Aval AssurParticipantAlso R’ Moshe writes (Igros Moshe YD chelek 2 siman 133)?????”? ?? ??? ????? ???? ??? ???? ??? ???? ???? ???? ????? ???? ??? ?????, ????? ??? ????? ???? ??? ????? ?????? ??? ?”? ?????? ??? ????? which would seem to indicate that he did not think that it is muchrach from the gemara that there’s only Techeiles and Kala Ilan unless you say that by the time of the Rambam they had discovered other ways to dye blue that were not known in the time of the gemara.
September 25, 2013 7:23 am at 7:23 am #1058071ChachamParticipantsam2- we already answered your kasha ????
patur. rambam 2:1 (?”? ?????)
??? ??? ???? ????? ??????, ???? ??????: ?? ?? ?? ???? ???? ?????, ???? ????? ??????? ?? ???? ???????? ??? ?? ???? ??????
Isatis means indigo kayidua.
than in halacha 8 rambam says
???? ???? ??’ ???? ???? ??? ??? ???? ???? ??’. ???? ???? ???? ???? ??? ??? ???? ??????? ??? ?? ????? ???? ???? ???? ?????.
so all rambam (and k”m) means if something else besides isatis is domeh to techeiles it has the din of kala ilan (i.e. it isn’t techeiles, can’t be used for lavan on tallis shekula techeiles) But it doesn’t mean that in the times of the gemara they had something else. Just lidoros if they find something else it has this din.
And of course the rayos from the gemaros are very muchach that there was nothing else known to be like indigo. The Murex was around Bizmanum memeila Ba harug braglov
September 25, 2013 2:44 pm at 2:44 pm #1058073Patur Aval AssurParticipant“so all rambam (and k”m) means if something else besides isatis is domeh to techeiles it has the din of kala ilan (i.e. it isn’t techeiles, can’t be used for lavan on tallis shekula techeiles) But it doesn’t mean that in the times of the gemara they had something else. Just lidoros if they find something else it has this din.”
But we know that in the times of the gemara they had murex trunculus. So if the chilazon was some other creature and the murex trunculus was around and could dye the same color as techeiles (which we know it could because it’s the same color as plant indigo) then according to the kesef mishna the murex trunculus would be nichlal in kala ilan. And therefore when the gemara indicates that there is no blue besides techeiles and kala ilan, it wouldn’t be a raya that techeiles has to be from the murex trunculus, because kala ilan includes the murex trunculus.
September 25, 2013 9:18 pm at 9:18 pm #1058074Patur Aval AssurParticipantAlso the Ben Yehoyada (BM 61b) says that the color that looks like Techeiles is called kala ilan which would mean that it’s not limited to a specific source such as plant indigo.
September 28, 2013 5:15 pm at 5:15 pm #1058075ChachamParticipant“So if the chilazon was some other creature and the murex trunculus was around and could dye the same color as techeiles (which we know it could because it’s the same color as plant indigo) then according to the kesef mishna the murex trunculus would be nichlal in kala ilan.”
the kesef mishna never meant that everything is called kla ilan, rather everything that color is nichlal in DINIM the gemara says for kal ilan. for example on a talis shekulo techeiles kla ilan can’t be used as chutei lavan so too anything else that color. and anyway the gemara in menachos is muchach that kla ilan is a specific thing.
about the ben yehoyada that says based on arizal there is ??”? on anything not real techeiles the sefer hakanah is mevuar that the mekor of the ??”? on kla ilan is talui on the fact it grows from the ground.
September 29, 2013 3:16 am at 3:16 am #1058076Patur Aval AssurParticipant“the kesef mishna never meant that everything is called kla ilan, rather everything that color is nichlal in DINIM the gemara says for kal ilan.”
That would seem to be a rather forced reading of ??? ???? ???? ???? ??? ???? ???? ????? ??? ??? ?????? .
Ant the gemara in menachos is only muchach that kala ilan is a specific thing if you make the hanacha that murex trunculus is not kala ilan. Why can’t it be that there are three levels: Techeiles, Kala Ilan (which would be any “perfect” imitation of techeiles), and then everything else. And correct me if I’m wrong but I think the nimulei yosef did not say “plant indigo”, he just said indigo. And anyway the fact that the rishonim don’t mention murex trunculus as part of kala ilan is very reasonable considering they didn’t know of any blue dye from it.
September 29, 2013 11:27 am at 11:27 am #1058077ChachamParticipantread on. kesef mishna is mefurosh
????? ????? ??? ???? ?? ??? ???? ????? ??? ???? ?????? ??? ????? ????????? ????? ??? ?? ??? ??? ??? ????? ??”? ????? ?????? ???? ?”? ???? ??? ??????? ????? ???? ???? ???? ???? ?”? ????? ??? ????? ????? ????? ??? ???? ?? ??? ???? ???? ??? ???? ?????? ????? ??? ?? ??? ??? ??? ???? ???? ???? ????? ?????? ???? ?????? ??? ???? ??”? ???? ????
“Ant the gemara in menachos is only muchach that kala ilan is a specific thing if you make the hanacha that murex trunculus is not kala ilan”
no. gemara is muchach that vadai a testthat will reveal kla ilan will reveal all kla ilans, meaning al karchach they are identical. murex and indigo are not.
“And correct me if I’m wrong but I think the nimulei yosef did not say “plant indigo”, he just said indigo”
yeah but what does kla ILLAN mean, either referring to plant, or it is a take-off of a name of the min, mmeaning only that min. Either way plenty of rishonim say ISatis, name of plant.
“And anyway the fact that the rishonim don’t mention murex trunculus as part of kala ilan is very reasonable considering they didn’t know of any blue dye from it”
well the shiltei giborim knew techeiles was from murex and still said it was blue.
September 29, 2013 8:03 pm at 8:03 pm #1058078Patur Aval AssurParticipantReading onward in the kesef mishna only shows that ???? is not included in ??? ????. Which makes sense because ???? can basically mean any dark color whereas ??? ???? is exactly like Techeiles.
You say that the gemara is muchach that kala ilan is only plant indigo because the gemara gives a test. I mentioned this as a possible answer although I pointed out that one could argue that we are not necessarily doing the test right and in reality the gemara’s test could distinguish between techeiles and murex trunculus. In fact you yourself have advanced this exact argument earlier in this thread.
The fact that the shiltei giborim said that techeiles is from murex is not relevant because as I said, I am asking in a vacuum of other proofs. My point was that the rishonim who did not know that murex trunculus could produce techeiles colored dye can not be expected to have mentioned it.
September 30, 2013 4:46 pm at 4:46 pm #1058079ChachamParticipant“Reading onward in the kesef mishna only shows that ???? is not included in ??? ????. Which makes sense because ???? can basically mean any dark color whereas ??? ???? is exactly like Techeiles”
the question you quoted from the kesef mishna is
??? ????? ?? ????? ???? ??? ?? ?????, ?????? ?? ???? ??? ??? ???? ???? ???? ??? ???? ???? ????? ??? ??? ??????
so his question is based on hanacha that shachar in the rambam is included in kla ilan and he has it shver because it shouldn’t be. So the only hechrech kla ilan is kolel more than one min is based on the lashon shachor
The teirutz I quoted says
?”? ????? ??? ????? ????? ????? ??? ???? ?? ??? ???? ???? ??? ???? ?????? ????? ??? ?? ??? ??? ??? ???? ???? ???? ????? ?????? ???? ?????? ??? ???? ??”? ???? ????
meaning that shachar is NOT nichlal in kla ilan, meaning there is no makor that kla ilan is more than one min. vdoi”k
about the gemara in menachos, there is definitely a chemical difference and Levush Haaron and others say the gemaras test was indeed done and it differentiated, and there is pictures backing this up. But forgetting about the Murex, the lashon hagmara is surely mashma that not everything that color is nichlal, because what was the raya when it got darker, maybe he discovered a new type of kla ilan
my point with the shiltei hagiborim is that he writes bfeirush techeiles is blue and writes elsewhere it is from murex. Meaning the shiltei giborim knew murex made blue, so who said rishonim didn”t know?
September 30, 2013 10:59 pm at 10:59 pm #1058080Sam2ParticipantPAA: Your example was not of something Patur Aval Assur. By Mapis Mursa, it’s either Chayav Chatas or Patur UMuttar. If it’s L’hotzi Leicha then it’s Ein Tzricha L’gufa and Chazal weren’t Gozer in this case. If it’s La’asos Pesach, it’s Chayav because now it’s Tzricha L’gufa.
Chacham: I don’t know if you’ve seen or mentioned it at all in this thread, but Tosfos Shabbos 75a seems pretty clear that the Chilazon is a fish. Any thoughts?
October 1, 2013 2:50 am at 2:50 am #1058081Patur Aval AssurParticipantChacham: I think we are understanding the kesef mishna differently. The way I understood it is that his question on the Rambam is that the Gemara only said that you can’t use kala ilan and the rambam for some reason broadens this issur and applies it to shachor as well. So the hechrech that kala ilan is more than one min is that the kesef mishna says that kala ilan is the color of techeiles made from other dyes. And if in fact murex trunculus is included in kala ilan it would still fit perfectly to say “this is not techeiles or kala ilan?!”, the only problem being that murex passes the test, but like I said earlier that is not what I’m questioning.
October 1, 2013 3:30 am at 3:30 am #1058082Patur Aval AssurParticipantSam2: Tosfos in kesubos (6a s.v. hai) says that it’s only patur umuttar because of tzaar. If there’s no tzaar then it’s patur aval assur.
October 1, 2013 3:33 am at 3:33 am #1058083Patur Aval AssurParticipantSam2: I think I mentioned that Tosfos in shabbos towards the beginning of this thread and Chacham responded that Tosfos was saying it as an efshar in order to answer a kashya. Besides we’re not as meshibad to the rishonim’s descriptions since they didn’t actually have it.
October 1, 2013 3:34 am at 3:34 am #1058084Patur Aval AssurParticipant“my point with the shiltei hagiborim is that he writes bfeirush techeiles is blue and writes elsewhere it is from murex. Meaning the shiltei giborim knew murex made blue, so who said rishonim didn”t know?”
So how do you address the bais halevi’s tayne?
October 2, 2013 11:56 am at 11:56 am #1058085ChachamParticipantSam2, there are snails that jump. So it is no raya to say that tosfos thought it is a fish.
I am asuming The bais halevi you are referring to is
October 2, 2013 6:10 pm at 6:10 pm #1058086Patur Aval AssurParticipantEven if kala ilan is only one color you still have that kasha on the gemara – maybe we just discovered a new min. So this is irrelevant to our discussion.
So you have to assume that rishonim knew about it and wrote that it was murex trunculus but didn’t wear it because of gezeiros and therefore it was forgotten and none of the acharonim ever saw the writings. If the shiltei giborim is the only one who says it and it’s a recently discovered manuscript then that would address the bais halevi. Is that the case?
October 3, 2013 6:05 pm at 6:05 pm #1058087Patur Aval AssurParticipantCan you provide a quote/source of the shiltei giborim so I can see exactly what he says?
Also, maybe murex trunculus isn’t techeiles or kala ilan and the reason why the gemara is never worried that the tzitzis might have been dyed with murex trunculus is that it’s very far-fetched to say that someone would make fake techeiles from murex trunculus considering that it was worth more than it’s weight in gold.
October 4, 2013 1:01 am at 1:01 am #1058088RI HakodeshMemberSorry for this being late Sim 613. Fortunatley i am aware of the halacha that permits the strings to be pretty much any color. Rambam goes on to say better to wear red strings on a red beged etc. first of all i beleive that color of stam strings can’t be the color of “techilis”. second of all the whole aisur of Bal Tosef is when one says that he is performing the Mitzvah of techilet and in fact is not. meaning when you find out what you were wearing was not techilet. you can’t just say oh well at least i was yotzeh mitzvas tzitis. no in fact your over Bal Tosef for saying you were yotzeh techilet.
October 4, 2013 2:19 am at 2:19 am #1058089ChachamParticipantPAA- I hear your tayne from the gemara in menachos.
my point about bais halevi is that all he needed was a sibah why it stopped and to this the ramban is an answer since he says there were gezeiros.
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as for not using expensive things as a ziyuf, what about hamotzi bashuk, because al kol ponim murex was heavily used, so you have to be choshesh that it is murex. besides if it isn’t kla ilan, rav achai should still be choshesh for it
October 4, 2013 2:39 am at 2:39 am #1058090ChachamParticipantRI HAKODESH-
1. The discussion of the color of the strings was never said on the strings in place of techeiles; it was only said on the strings of lavan. See Mishna Brura 9,14, Yam Shel Shlomo Yevamos 3, Artzos Chaim 9, 5, Chazon Ish 3, 25 and others.
2. You claim there is Bal Tosif if I try to do a mitzvah and it turns out to not be one. So you are suggesting not to do it even misafek.
Can you explain to me why this is different than tefillin that there is a safek if they are kasher, or esrog safek murkav, and every other safek mitzvah where the poskim say you are chayav to do it misafek deoraysa lchumra and aren’t choshesh for Bal tosif if it is passul?
the sefer hachinuch doesn’t seem to agree. He writes in mitzvah 454
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The Riaz brought in Shiltei Giborim 4b of dafei hariph in Rosh Hashona says the same thing that there is no bal tosif if you put tefilin in the wrong place.
Do you have any source that there is Bal tosif on a pasul Mitzvah?
It could be you are oiver bal tosef if you make up a new issur of Bal tosef that the torah never assured.
October 4, 2013 6:53 pm at 6:53 pm #1058091Patur Aval AssurParticipant“my point about bais halevi is that all he needed was a sibah why it stopped and to this the ramban is an answer since he says there were gezeiros.”
I hear. But why limaaseh did the acharonim not make techeiles from the murex? The gezeiros ended hundreds of years ago. Unless you say that by the time the gezeiros had ended they forgot how to get the dye to turn blue or even how to make the dye altogether. Or that they knew the whole time but they were never able to actually do it.
But it is a bit odd that the midrash would say that techeiles was nignaz if in fact nothing about the metzious or knowledge had changed. It doesn’t sound like the midrash is saying that we have the chilazon and know how to make techeiles but we can’t do it because of gezeiros. Unless you say that it was in fact forgotten/lost and the shiltei hagiborim rediscovered it.
October 4, 2013 7:09 pm at 7:09 pm #1058092Patur Aval AssurParticipant“as for not using expensive things as a ziyuf, what about hamotzi bashuk, because al kol ponim murex was heavily used, so you have to be choshesh that it is murex. besides if it isn’t kla ilan, rav achai should still be choshesh for it.”
The gemara says that it’s only kosher if the wool was tied which indicates that it was made for tzitzis. Now if you find blue wool made for tzitzis you can assume that the guy didn’t use murex trunculus to dye tzitzis. Now let’s say that the guy who put in in the shuk had himself found it there not tied as tzitzis. Why would he make it into tzitzis considering that he cannot ascertain whether it was dyed with murex or with techeiles and he can’t ascertain whether or not it was dyed lishma. It’s muchrach miney ubay that we’re not choshesh for this, because if we were then you could never use techeiles found in the shuk. So therefore if you find blue strings in the shuk there would never be a problem, even if murex trunculus is not real techeiles.
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