Timeline for Why is greeting someone before praying compared to building a private altar?
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| Jan 26, 2020 at 16:26 | comment | added | DonielF | @DoubleAA Care to write it up as an answer? | |
| Jan 23, 2020 at 19:06 | comment | added | Fred | @DoubleAA See the remark of the Rif, "והני מילי במשכים לפתחו אבל בשאינו משכים לפתחו שרי דתנן בפרקים שואל מפני הכבוד ומשיב שלום לכל אדם", specifying the problem is only going out of your way to greet someone at their home before prayers (though some acharonim extend this to going out of your way to greet someone even in a different part of the shul, see MB 89:9). Perhaps that might smack of some kind of subservience. | |
| Jan 23, 2020 at 13:09 | comment | added | Double AA♦ | This rule only makes sense if you know about Roman Salutatio thoughtco.com/ancient-roman-history-salutatio-112667 The greeting is not what you think it is. | |
| Jan 23, 2020 at 3:17 | answer | added | sabbahillel | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 23, 2020 at 1:12 | comment | added | Fred | I don't think there's a fundamental difference between them, just that each formulation was more suitable to the accompanying d'rasha. Maybe you can teitch some subtle nuance of difference between them, though (worship idolatry vs. build an idolatrous altar). | |
| Jan 23, 2020 at 1:00 | comment | added | DonielF | @Fred That's fascinating, thanks for the source. According to Rashi there, what's the difference between Ulla and R' Yochanan? | |
| Jan 23, 2020 at 0:59 | comment | added | Fred | Cf. Sotah 4b, where 'Ulla uses the same d'rasha to denounce people who are arrogant. Rashi over there says it indeed refers to a private altar of idolatry. | |
| Jan 23, 2020 at 0:39 | history | asked | DonielF | CC BY-SA 4.0 |