Our Generation Is Better Than That of the Shulchan Aruch

The narrative common to all preachers is that any and all previous generations were superior to any and all later generations.

Here’s one counter-example: Shulchan Aruch Even Ha’ezer Siman 24 forbids Yichud with males. This clearly shows that the Jews at the time and place the SA was written suffered more from the sin of homosexuality than we do. The Bach is explicit.

(Although the Gra on Yoreh Deah 153:3 seems to disagree.)

Some other articles:

  1. Can We Assume Absence of Custom to Mean a NEGATIVE Custom?
  2. Explaining the Difference Between Rishonim and Achronim
  3. I Can’t Understand How One Can Learn the Tur Honestly
  4. Meta-Halacha: Is Accidental National Sin Impossible?
  5. Scribal Error in the Shulchan Aruch

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