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From: R. Kovacs
Subject: The slash notation
Date: 19 Sivan 5783
R. Nachmani's categories make sense on paper. Home, public, alone, social. Very organized.
But I think of my own practice, and it does not fit these boxes.
My kashrut is different when I am at home with my wife than when I am at home with guests. It is different when the guests are family than when they are strangers. It is different on Pesach than on Sukkot. It is different in Brooklyn than in Israel.
Which is primary? Which is secondary? I do not know. I am the same person in all these contexts. The practice varies. But not on a single axis.
If I write K+/-, I am simplifying something that is not simple. The slash gives me two positions. I have seven.
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