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Yankel, just be careful dismissing seforim because it is,agada.
This bias towards halakha is due to halakha having rules of derivation, while agadic discourse can go wild. This is a good reason to be careful with conclusions but don’t dismiss it totally.
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I never dismissed agada , has veshalom.
I did take issue with the crooked and narrowminded statement that vay’m is the sole accepted halacha opinion , since supposedly no one else took issue with its content.
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The only way to respond to such a ststement is that this is utter drivel.
The overwhelming majority of the content of vy’m is agada, and [besides the klal of ein meshivin al hadrush] most gdolei yisrael disagreed with its conclusions halacha lema’aseh.
There was never any normative halachik process applied to these subjects.
FOR SURE NOT TO THE EXTREMELY HAMUR SUBJECT OF MILLIONS MASS PIKUACH NEFESH .
Which some posters here are attempting to paskin in a ‘hobby like’ way , basing themselves on so called divrei drush in order to condemn their own brothers and sisters to gruesome deaths , barbaric torture and unspeakable atrocities.
All in order that they themselves should feel smug in their own superior morality as if they know better than the true talmidei hahamim who ceaselessly toil in torah , and arrive at their conclusions in a real and responsible manner.
There is no other explanation for their approach , besides the one mentioned.
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