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So, this is actually pretty interesting. The rabbis are talking about circumcising babies on Shabbat and someone's like "Oh, hey, that reminds me, you know Rabbi Yosei from Galilee? He says chicken is parve, actually." https://twitter.com/JustSayXtian/status/1285814140259295232
And all the rabbis snort milk out of their noses and they're like "WHAT???????" And the Gemara is like "Yeah, you know all those angry letters we get about how chickens don't have milk so you can't boil a chick in it? Guess what Yosei said."
And then Levi chimes in and says "Oh yeah, I was over in the Galilee the other day visiting Yosef the hunter and he served me a peacock head in a bowl of milk, which is a totally normal dish that people eat I guess." And the rabbis say "Ew, did you eat it?"
And Levi's like "Gross, as if" and Yehuda haNasi chimes in like "But he's WRONG that's WRONG what did you do, did you go all Rashbi on him is he cancelled?"
And Levi shrugs and says "What am I gonna do? If that's their local custom, that's their local custom, every community has the right to handle halakha in their own way according to the rulings of their own trusted rabbis. It's not for me, but who am I to tell them how to live?"
And everyone's like "Oh, right, we forgot, there's not just one and only one right way to do things. Anyway, about circumcision, I heard about this place once where they did things Rabbi Eliezer's way and...."
And they move on. That's it. Disagreement over.
And they move on. That's it. Disagreement over.
Anyway, this is one of those things I'm going to think about from now on when someone tells me all Jews did things the same way for thousands of years before the Haskalah and the newer streams are moving away from a timeless and unanimously agreed upon Judaism.
