Phenomenalism – Baruch sheKivanti!
The central thesis of this “Phenomenalism” category of this blog was built on two parts. The first is Rabbi Aqiva Eiger’s (RAE) explanation (shu”t, mahadura qama #136) that the ways in which uncertainty in...
by Micha Berger · Published January 24, 2018 – ח׳ בשבט תשע״ח · Last modified January 24, 2018
The central thesis of this “Phenomenalism” category of this blog was built on two parts. The first is Rabbi Aqiva Eiger’s (RAE) explanation (shu”t, mahadura qama #136) that the ways in which uncertainty in...
by Micha Berger · Published December 30, 2013 – כ״ז בטבת תשע״ד · Last modified December 30, 2013
Rav Meir disagrees with the other sages on a number of topics involving logic. 1- When framing a tenai, a condition on a business dealing, an oath, a pledge or the like, the majority opinion...
by Micha Berger · Published April 21, 2013 – י״א באייר תשע״ג · Last modified April 21, 2013
A central theme in this “Phenomenology” category of this blog is an extension of an idea from a responsum by R’ Aqiva Eiger. That extension isn’t really part of this observation, but since I’m...
by Micha Berger · Published April 24, 2011 – כ׳ בניסן תשע״א · Last modified April 24, 2011
ר’ יצחק בי רבי אלעזר שאל זרק מרשות היחיד לרשות הרבים ונזכר עד שהוא ברשות הרבים. על דעתיה דר’ עקיבה יעשה כמי שנחה בר”ה ויהא חייב שתים. א”ר חונה לא חייב ר’ עקיבה אלא...
by Micha Berger · Published February 22, 2011 – י״ח באדר א׳ תשע״א · Last modified February 22, 2011
This will only be of interest to people who care about Symbolic Logic and about the rules of birur, of resolution of doubt in halachic questions. But I found something I wrote back in...
by Micha Berger · Published January 6, 2011 – א׳ בשבט תשע״א · Last modified January 6, 2011
One more thought about my “Halakhah and Phenomenology” series…. A basic assumption behind the series is that what justifies looking at the world as experienced and as it could be directly experienced is the...
by Micha Berger · Published January 3, 2011 – כ״ז בטבת תשע״א · Last modified January 3, 2011
The Yerushami (Challah 3:5) discusses the case of when bread which didn’t have challah taken (or flour which didn’t have terumah taken from it), fell into a quantity of already separated bread. The gemara...
by Micha Berger · Published April 25, 2009 – א׳ באייר תשס״ט · Last modified April 25, 2009
At this point we’re so far mid-stream, that unlike the previous post, I’m not going to summarize the basic thesis or even pretend to try to translate terms already used. Instead, I will just...
by Micha Berger · Published April 22, 2009 – כ״ח בניסן תשס״ט · Last modified April 22, 2009
Back on April 6th, I posted my previous entry to this series. The notion I’m exploring here is that: (1) Halakhah is about changing the one who performs it (as the Chinukh puts it...
by Micha Berger · Published April 6, 2009 – י״ב בניסן תשס״ט · Last modified April 6, 2009
In the previous post, I presented the idea that The Chinukh repeatedly explains various mitzvos by explaining “ha’adam nif’al lefi pe’ulaso — a person is affected according to his action.” Contemporary hashkafos differ over...
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