העורך Editor

עיין חזו”א יו”ד סוף סימן קנ”א שאין להבטל מהתורה חלילה בשביל להעשיר.

The מעוררים announced, for those who use matchboxes to measure a Kezayis, that the matchboxes themselves have gotten smaller.

I can already picture people saying a matchbox is a matchbox, and leave them alone…

וכללים חשובים נוספים המיוחסים לגאון מוילנא…

ראה כאן.

כפי שמדגים יוסף יצחק ליפשיץ היטב במאמרו: “על תורת הכלכלה היהודית”.

את המאמר ניתן למצוא כאן.

What’s a worse Chillul Hashem, the claim Torah greats erred about reality or the claim the Torah contradicts reality?

If the Torah really wrote things we fail to understand, such as Parah Adumah, we are certainly obligated to bow to the Torah and its Divine imperatives.

But if the written Torah and Chazal inform us of things which accord precisely to reality, and then later Jewish sages come along and tell us the Torah says things which do not accord with reality, there is a great Chillul Hashem, as though the Torah contradicts reality. Better we publicly admit and announce Torah greats erred, and the Torah is true than the reverse, as though the Torah itself contradicts reality.