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From: meth@csd2.UUCP (Asher Meth)
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Subject: Re: Halachic not Humanistic Judism
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Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 17:20:00 EST
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Sorry about the previous posting in which the previous article (by Yakim) is
reposted under my name. It was an accident.

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[Yakim Martillo writes :]
>Likewise  since  Gershom  comes from the provencal tradition probably he
>was never addressed as Rab while he lived.

Perhaps. But today (and for the past few hundered years) he has been titled as
Rabbeinu Gershom. Furthermore, you end your posting with ...

>The Hakam Bernays, Hirsch's teacher, held that all religious Jews should
>avoid the use of Rab and Rabbi because using these terms give legitimacy
>to certain illegitimate approaches to Judaism common among Ashkenazim.

It is interesting that you will use the term 'Hakam'. And I would expect you to
use this term when referring to a Sfardi gadol (or, chacham). In light of this,
I would also expect you to treat non-sfadi chachamim with the same respect. You
do, of course, admit that they were great talmidei chachamim and gedolim, even
though they were Ashkenazim.

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A correction to a previous posting that I made (and as was pointed out to me by
Jay Schachter, alias humbert) - Rabbeinu Gershom was the rebbi of the rebbi of
Rashi, as can be found in 'Hagahos Maharav Ranshburg' in his comment on Rashi in
Pesachim 111a.

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Chag Kasher Vesameach to all.

         asher meth
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