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From: R. Nachmani
Subject: The slash notation
Date: 19 Sivan 5783
The Rebbetzin identifies a real problem.
But if we do not define contexts, readers will invent their own interpretations. These may also be wrong. At least a definition provides a common starting point.
Or perhaps we are thinking about this incorrectly. Perhaps the slash does not indicate specific contexts at all. Perhaps it indicates variation exists without specifying the axes of variation.
K+/- would mean: my kashrut practice is positive in some contexts, negative in others. Which contexts? Unspecified. The reader knows only that I am not uniform.
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