Friday, June 13, 2008

Poor writers and active readers

Regarding Matt and Rabbi Maroofs point about clarity in writing. I will attempt to zocher the point they make in connecting ideas to examples. It is in the nature of the "Rambam System" to have many implicit premises embedded in every principle. Insofar as I fail to anticipate all premises that need to be exemplified, there is still recourse for the active reader. If you recall a while back I had a long back and forth with RW on Matt's blog. It was regarding Beruria and R Meir's relationship as exemplified in accepting a harsh material condition on Shabbos. RW was a very active reader, extremely helpful in asking questions and requesting examples where he wanted them . Feel free to do the same everyone.

2 comments:

Matt said...

Are you planning to write up the ideas on tefilah from this past Shabbos?

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks said...

I'm hard at work