tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post4069897759511065499..comments2024-03-28T21:21:02.777-04:00Comments on Divrei Chaim: bedikas chameitz (IV) and tashbisuChaim B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02231811394447584320noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-50945803412553525542007-04-01T11:29:00.000-04:002007-04-01T11:29:00.000-04:00i agree that the rambam is not working with the id...i agree that the rambam is not working with the idea of hefker - in 2:2 he never mentions the word, which is consipcuous in light of tosfos position that the entire mechanism og bitul=hefker. <BR/>re: your point about biur w/o bitul - but even derabbanan, if one chooses to simply do biur on everything, doesn't that suffice?Chaim B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02231811394447584320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-2252493744586781942007-03-30T15:30:00.000-04:002007-03-30T15:30:00.000-04:00I have always understood the Rambam as distinguish...I have always understood the Rambam as distinguishing sharply between bittul and biur. Bittul is the primary mitsvah - it is a change of internal attitude vis a vis the hametz, rather than a "Hoshen Mishpat" kind of phenomenon. The Rambam, as I understand him, doesn't construe bittul as hefqer, or even as having anything to do with ownership. It is the verbal declaration of our withdrawal from hametz.<BR/><BR/>Biur is the physical elimination of hametz that demonstrates our rejection of it in a concrete manner. However, without bittul, biur is lacking its underlying substratum; namely, the shift in <I>relationship</I> between the person and his hametz.Rabbi Joshua Maroofhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12585369620887846940noreply@blogger.com