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From: teitz@aecom.UUCP (Eliyahu Teitz)
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Subject: Re: Re: Halachic not Humanistic Judism
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Date: Wed, 27-Mar-85 14:30:15 EST
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> In any case, no Rabbi who accepted Gershom's rather silly tikun -- which
> to  tell  the  truth  I believe is a myth -- would consider mamzerim the
> children by a second wife of a man who never gave his first wife a  get.


	Yakim,

	Don't you think you're going a little overboard in calling R. Gershom
 silly. He was greater than you'll ever be, so I wouldn't call him silly.
 Because the s'faradim did not accept the decree does not mean that there
 wasn't good reason for it. In general, ashkenazim accepted many decrees
 on themselves which the s'faradim did not. It doesn't mean that either is
 sillier than the other. One last point. No matter what you think of 
 R. Gershom, he was a great rabbi, and you should refer to him by his title
 ( Rav, Rabbenu, or at least R. A simple Gershom isn't respectful. ).

				Eliyahu Teitz.