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yankel > that clearly puts OTD in a whole new and different category to stam issurin
Well, you are comparing with physical danger at the same level (while gemora compares unlikely sakanah with unlikely issur). But again the worst attitude is to not do anything to deal with the danger.
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it is ideal to follow rambam’s advice .
it is not ideal to discard rambam’s advice
the torah is netsach , the advice is netsach .
netsach means ‘longer than hundreds of years’
means that we will listen to rambam for thousands of years if need be
if the situation changes and we will not need to be in a midbar anymore , then the advice will change
so length of time is completely irrelevant here
if you are REALLY interested in following rambam , that is ….
not if you are merely USING rambam for your own shitot whenever convenient
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correction : the worst attitude is to capitulate to the danger , i.e. enlist .
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.yankel> it is ideal to follow rambam’s advice
this is a good question – how long would Rambam suggest staying in the desert. I can’t find any commentaries on this Rambam (MT Deos 6:1) discussing this issue. Can you?
Maybe we can surmise from Rambam himself, as he says “like in our generation” but does not spend his whole lfe in the desert. He runs away from the prosecutions, then lives in a college town for some time (Fes), and then worked in the City as a doctor, having a house in Jewish suburbs.
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AAQ> Maybe we can surmise from Rambam himself, as he says “like in our generation” but does not spend his whole lfe in the desert. He runs away from the prosecutions, then lives in a college town for some time (Fes), and then worked in the City as a doctor, having a house in Jewish suburbs.
—total rubbish – sorry
rambam for sure practised what he preached
if he did not go to the midbar , MUST BE that his generation were not a generation consumed by sin , forcing others to participate .
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.yankel> if he did not go to the midbar , MUST BE that his generation were not a generation consumed by sin ,
this is what rambam actually says
וְאִם הָיוּ כָּל הַמְּדִינוֹת שֶׁהוּא יוֹדְעָם וְשׁוֹמֵעַ שְׁמוּעָתָן נוֹהֲגִים בְּדֶרֶךְ לֹא טוֹבָה, כְּמוֹ זְמַנֵּנוּ
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