Abir Yaakov

[Abir Yaakov @yaakovkabir]

@SamsonSerious @FieldSpeakerZDQ @ChabadZoomer @arinohem Yes I do indeed choose to believe the Rambam.

[Abir Yaakov @yaakovkabir]

@SamsonSerious @FieldSpeakerZDQ @ChabadZoomer @arinohem Torah scholars just like we revere Hashem. Not me, the Gemara. Don't strawman me saying "they can sin", because I never rejected this, but to say that Gedolim were actively, knowlingly, and wantonly scamming Am Yisrael is not allowed, and not the type of sin gedolim do.

[Abir Yaakov @yaakovkabir]

@SamsonSerious @FieldSpeakerZDQ @ChabadZoomer @arinohem The Rambam paskens in Hilchot Teshuva that one who denigrates the character of Gedolei Yisrael is a Min like Tzadok and Baytos and their cults, and has no chelek to Olam Haba. I never said Gedolim are deities, I said one must revere them. The Talmud says that we must revere

[Abir Yaakov @yaakovkabir]

@FieldSpeakerZDQ @ChabadZoomer @arinohem Be very careful how you speak about Gedolim.

[Abir Yaakov @yaakovkabir]

@David__Well @SerenitysPet Iraqi Jews leaving in the 50s. They didn't learn by any Ashkenazim and were more on the secular side. This was a style in the middle east, and the yeshiva students of Porat Yosef adapted it as well. It's a Western style, more than it is ashkenazi.

[Abir Yaakov @yaakovkabir]

@David__Well @SerenitysPet In Porat Yosef in the 1920s the younger generation would wear fedoras. This is because suits and fedoras had been introduced to the Arab world after european colonization and was a fashion statement of the Arabs who were westernizing. Nowadays, these arabs wear regular clothing.

[Abir Yaakov @yaakovkabir]

@JMMusings what else do you expect them to learn in yeshiva?

[Abir Yaakov @yaakovkabir]

@haivri @fredfish2290 @jewishhistoryst The quality in avodah I was referring to was the singing of said niggun which for 250 years has inspired tens of thousands of yidden in avodah and yirah. As is known (also found in the writings of the Rambam fyi), music is a tool which brings one to Ruach haKodesh.

[Abir Yaakov @yaakovkabir]

@haivri @fredfish2290 @jewishhistoryst Considering that Ruach haKodesh is a higher sense that moves one to Avodat HaShem it fits great. Here the divine revelation was for the sake of an increased quality of avodah

[Abir Yaakov @yaakovkabir]

@haivri @fredfish2290 @jewishhistoryst https://t.co/GtqBixLcGq you didn’t find it because you didn’t look in the right places. Plus, Rambam mentions it in Sefer HaMada. PS, Shulchan Aruch also never writes not to murder. Almost as if Judaism has more than two books.

[Abir Yaakov @yaakovkabir]

@Jew_Jew_Jew_Jew @DBashIdeas medieval Jewish history where most of the primary sources are in Medieval Rabbinic Hebrew, a dialect which there aren’t really any direct translations in English that have been made, and most of the primary sources being in Hebrew, which grok isn’t so reliable with.

[Abir Yaakov @yaakovkabir]

@Jew_Jew_Jew_Jew @DBashIdeas I never heard such a view nor does it really make sense to me. Especially considering they mainly quote rashi to disagree. What would make it a super-commentary at that point? Especially since the style is the polar opposite to Rashi. Grok is usually not accurate, especially with

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@RabbiEytan @DBashIdeas Though I wouldn’t really consider the Rosh, RaMBaN, or Rashba as Tosafot. the Rosh you could argue could be considered a “Tosafist” but only regarding his work Tosafot haRosh, but his main work had a different Shittah than tosafot on how to learn. Though similar.

[Abir Yaakov @yaakovkabir]

@RabbiEytan @DBashIdeas I was under the impression that a later student of R” Tam was the main compiler/editor of the text of Tosafot we have today, but could be I am wrong now that I’m looking through Wikipedia articles again. I’ll have to read more about this, but I’ll concede.

[Abir Yaakov @yaakovkabir]

@Jew_Jew_Jew_Jew @DBashIdeas The truth as to why tosafot doesn’t quote the Rambam or sefaradi sages often is probably because the text of Tosafot is simply a compilation of Germanic hakhamim’s shitot and glosses, and it’s not so relevant to their goal to mention Shitot of Sefaradi sages.

[Abir Yaakov @yaakovkabir]

@Jew_Jew_Jew_Jew @DBashIdeas I don’t see really how it could be an addition to rashi considering how wildly different the style of Perush is between Rashi and Tosafot. Tosafot is like a radical opposition to Rashi in terms of style. That being said, the Baalei Tosafot also the Behag is quoted extensively

[Abir Yaakov @yaakovkabir]

@Jew_Jew_Jew_Jew @DBashIdeas I’ve never heard of the idea that Tosafot was a response to rashi. Can you substantiate that claim?

[Abir Yaakov @yaakovkabir]

@Canuckabroad444 @FarleftReddit @BackupJeffx She didn’t say any of that lmao

[Abir Yaakov @yaakovkabir]

@DBashIdeas Nowadays we’d call it Peshat Amok. Brisk is very similar to this Mehalekh and mixes both Litvishe (sevara based learning) and Peshat very interestingly.

[Abir Yaakov @yaakovkabir]

@DBashIdeas HaTalmud for the sake of Sevara. The “Textual” mehalekh is seen with the Academy in Kirouan, and the writings of the Ri”f and the like. Nowadays this is still seen in traditional Sefardi Yeshivot, notably Kise Rahamim. Hakham Ezra Attiyah ztzl gave over shiur in this manner.