Lag B'Omer: Do they rule according to Kabbalah?
Rabbi Shai Tahan, head of the Shaare Ezra Kollel and head of the Arazi Lebanon Teaching House, was asked about Halacha and Kabbalah, and answered extensively.
His full answer is inside
Aryeh Zamir, submitted on behalf of Shuva Israel
17/05/2022
Tuesday, 17 May 2022, 07:53 Updated: 07:59
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Many times in our daily lives halakhic questions arise and topical doubts arise.
Rabbi Shai Tahan, head of the Shaare Ezra Kollel and head of the Arazi Lebanon Teaching House, makes the laws accessible to us and answers questions asked in and out of the beit midrash.
And this time: Do you rule according to Kabbalah.
Question
:
Hello to the rabbi.
On Lag B'Omer where we all celebrate the teachings of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai and especially his precious book is the Holy Zohar, I doubted whether rulings are like him, and the reason for this doubt is because I hear from different sources different rulings, some say we do not judge The acceptance that we have no business in the occult, and on the other hand some say it went as the words of the Zohar, so I came out confused.
It can be concluded that the custom of the Sephardic community is to follow the Zohar and Kabbalah, while the Ashkenazim rule according to the opinion of the simplistic judges (Photo: ShutterStock)
Answer
:
Peace and blessings to the esteemed questioner, let us put things in order once and for all so that we may know the paved road that ascends Beit-El.
It is known that the Book of Zohar was written by Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai from the same things he learned from Elijah the prophet while in a cave for a long period of 12 years and another year, when he left he taught his students the secrets of Torah he studied there and then all were written in the Book of Zohar.
And as for your question, whether one rules halakhah as the words of the Pesht or the Zohar, one must know that our ancient rabbis have already shared in this, since they are the owner of the Shulchan Aruch and the Rama.
This dispute is in the law of the immigrant to read in the Torah scroll (first sign) whether the immigrant should read together with the husband reading or not.
According to the simplistic arbitrators, it must happen together with the husband who reads, while the Zohar's opinion is that there is no reader but one, or the immigrant or the husband reads.
And about this the rabbi of Beit Yosef (who is the author of the Shulchan Aruch) wrote there that they do not leave the words of the Zohar from the words of the other arbitrators.
The Rama
there (in the ways of Moses) wrote to disagree with him and wrote that one should not move from the words of the arbitrators, even if the words of the Zohar were to disagree with them.
They did so because they did not see the words of the Zohar, and this is because the Zohar was hidden for about 1500 years until Rabbi Moshe di Leon found it.
Therefore, if the same arbitrators had seen the words of the Zohar, surely they too would have repeated them and thanked the words of the Zohar.
Here before us is the Shulchan Aruch
that the Easterners of the Eastern Judges rule like him.
Shoots, so even when it is found that he disagrees with the words of the Zohar and the Kabbalah there is a lilac after the Kabbalah. And there are examples of the above for the most part.
And not only in the words of Halacha say yes but also in the customs, that although the opinion of the Shulchan Aruch is that there is always a lilac after the customs, so in his introduction to his great work called 'Beit Yosef' he wrote that anyone who has a custom against any A person will follow his custom.
And here in contrast to this element he wrote, that if the custom contradicts the opinion of Kabbalah, a person should have lilac as the opinion of Kabbalah.
Later halakhic books also used similar methods in the division between the Sephardic and Ashkenazi customs.
It is clear from the Mishnah that he is one of the greatest Ashkenazi arbitrators
. So paragraph ah) wrote that this is the opinion of the Ashkenazim but the Sephardim always follow the rulings of the Zohar and the Kabbalists against the arbitrators in everything that is not explicitly explained in the Talmud.
We found another controversy in the law of blessings, that although we always believe that instead of doubting whether to bless or not, we take a voice and do not bless, since the rule is that it provides blessings to facilitate, but instead of the late Ari (who is the Kabbalist) To facilitate and bless, so did the Hida (Shiuri Bracha C. Tacha) and also the son Ish Chai wrote (Rav verbs 8: 8), 'Mo Soo) wrote that this blessing should not be blessed, but since the opinion of the Ari is to bless we practice and do the same.
And here it can be concluded that the custom of the Sephardic community is to follow the Zohar and Kabbalah while the Ashkenazim rule according to the simplistic arbitrators, but it is interesting to note that our great Rabbi Gaon Rabbi Ovadia Yosef ztl.
And the Ga'a Yosef explained that everything that Beit Yosef said that there was a lilac after the Kabbalah spoke only about the Zohar. In what we wrote above that there is no saying of doubtful blessings to facilitate against the late Aryan and he believed that one should not bless with doubtful blessing even if the Aryan said to bless.
(See all this in Ein Yitzchak HG Amud Rased).
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