beninguman:
Fakert, Tosafos’s question is much better according to me. Look at the lashon Tosafos uses. He says that the gemara should have answered that Shmuel’s statement in Moed Katan was referring to zivug sheini. Not that since there is always a possibility of a zivug sheini, everyone can get married on Chol Hamoed. Tosafos in Moed Katan is even clearer. There he says that the Gemara should have answered ?? ???? ????? ??
???? ??? i.e. the statement that everyone has a predestined match is talking specifically about a zivug rishon whereas Shmuel’s statement about Chol Hamoed is talking specifically about a zivug sheini. According to you, one wouldn’t know if it’s his zivug sheini so therefore Tosafos’s suggestion wouldn’t answer the Gemara’s question.
Whereas according to me, Tosafos is asking why the Gemara didn’t just answer that for your second marriage you can get married on chol hamoed but for your first marriage you can’t because that one is predestined. Aaaiii, you’ll ask “Tosafos’s question is very weak. The mashmaos of Shmuel’s statement in Moed Katan, and the halacha, is in no way limited to someone’s second marriage. It is therefore not surprising that the Gemara did not want to use this answer.” And you are mechavein to the Maharatz Chayes’s question on Tosafos. Which shows that the Maharatz Chayes was learning like me.
By the way, thank you for helping me turn a shidduch thread into a Talmudic debate.