Rambam Bekius

Supplanting Your Rav's Place and Position (Hilchos Talmud Torah 5:6)

January 12, 2022 Rabbi Matt Schneeweiss Season 6 Episode 54
Rambam Bekius
Supplanting Your Rav's Place and Position (Hilchos Talmud Torah 5:6)
Show Notes

This afternoon (1/12/21), in our Rambam Bekius chavurah, we began by clearing up a point about the prohibitions against being in the bathhouse with various individuals. We then returned to Hilchos Talmud Torah where we discussed the prohibition to sit in your rav's place, to be "machria" his words, and to contradict his words. The difficult task was understanding what those last two cases refer to - a task which was made easier and more difficult by a tshuvah of the Rambam in which he explicitly explains the case of "machria."
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מקורות:
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: ספר קודשה, הלכות איסורי ביאה כא:טו-טז
תלמוד בבלי - פסחים דף נא עמוד א עם פרש"י ותוס' הרי"ד (מהדורה תליתאה)
רמב"ם - משנה תורה: ספר המדע, הלכות תלמוד תורה ה:ו עם כסף משנה ולחם משנה
רמב"ם - שו"ת סימן רס"ד
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