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Megilah 029: Picking the Grass in a Ruined Synagogue
Sruli Bernstein asks:
The gemorah brings a contradiction from the baraisa which says you can pick
the grass and just can't feed it to your animals. The gemorah reconciles
the Mishnah to be saying the same thing. How can this be - the Mishnah
explicitly states it is so that people should see the unpicked weeds in
order to inspire grief?
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The Kollel replies:
1) The Rambam, in his commentary on the Mishnah, writes that what causes
the heart-ache is the fact that the weeds are there on the site of the
synagogue. He writes that it follows that it is permitted to pick the weeds
and leave them there in their place. What one may not do is pick them and
feed them to one's animal, or destroy them totally. We see that the Rambam
understands that if the grass is left in its place, this also arouses
grief. It is only if the weeds are totally removed that people forget the
grief. (This is stated slightly more clearly by the Bartenura on the
Mishnah, 28a.)
2) The Tiferes Yisrael (#17) goes a step futher. He writes that not only is
it permitted to pluck them, but it is actually preferable to pluck them and
leave them in their place. If one does not pick the weeds at all, people
will think that one is leaving the weeds until one's animal needs them.
Therefore, they will not be so saddened by the ruined synagogue. In
contrast, if one plucks the weeds and then leaves them in their place, this
is most upsetting and it will awaken people to rebuild the synagogue.
3) The Mishneh Berurah (OC 151:29, and Sha'ar ha'Tziyun #17) cites only the
interpretation of the Rambam and does not mention the Tiferes Yisrael.
Kol Tuv,
Dovid Bloom
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