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In article <84dldr$v5$1@news1.bu.edu>,
  simon1@bu.edu (Simcha Streltsov) wrote:
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> tryinghard@my-deja.com wrote:
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> :  How the Conservative clergy are so knowledgable that they can
> : differentiate niddah from zavah is beyond my
> :  comprehension. Which is comical because their entire intruction to
all
> : of Yoreh Deah boils down to a
> :  Reader's Digest verison 22 clock-hour low level course in practical
> : halacha (CDE 3809x)."
>
> : Bakcon seems to apply this to Prof. Kraemer, (since he is the only
one
> : whom Kaiser has claimed as knowledgebale in the laws of Niddah) Yet
> : backon has no knowledge whatoever of Kraemer's background,
>
> thanks for a reasoned list:
>
> : 1. Kraemer's qulifiactions are not mentioned in it at all
>
> I assume that an ordinary Rabbi would have to council his
> congregants in practical cases. thus, the reference
>

backons assertion came immediately following Kaiser's pointer to a
source, a source which backon did not take up.  I therefore assumed that
he was disparaging the source (presumably a member of what Mr. bacon
calls "the C clergy"), rather than questioning how the position could be
applied in practice.  the latter would be a legitimate question ( and
one that I simply do not have the qualifications to answer at this time)
involving how frequently cases like this come up, the mechanism for
referral from your average congregational rabbi to more
halahkically expert rabbis, etc.  It might well lead to conclusion that
the position enunciated by Mr. Kaiser, while defensible in theory, is
unworkable in practice.  However in order to pursue this question one
would first have to acknowledge that there ARE halakhically
knowledgable C rabbis, a position that Mr. bacon refuses to accept. Mr.
Bacon uses every misleading rhetorical device at his disposal to assert
his position on this.  It is for that reason that I continue to find his
posts more misleading than Mr. Kaiser's.


shalom
tryinghard


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