ALIYAH: CONFLICT AND AMBIVALENCE
Song of Songs 2:15—“The little foxes that spoil the vineyards.” B. Gittin 61a.
Psalms 10:15.
Based on Jeremiah 21:12.
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34. My monograph, The Lesser Evil, A Maimonidian Halakhic Technique, which is due for publication in 1997, deals in length with this issue.
35. R. Samson's responsum is found in Responsa Maharam(4) 202: see supra note I. 36. Karnafogel(supra note 1), pp. 198-200. 37. See supra note 17.
38. Hagahot Mordecai 312 to Ketubot; cf. Tosfot Ketubot 110b, s.v. hu omer, where this
view is anonymous. 39. Ibid. Tosfot Ketubot 110b. 40. Responsa Mabit(supra note 4)(3), 131.[ltalics].
41. Supra notes 10-11.
42. Responsa Maharit(Lemberg: 1861)(1), 131. See the ruling of his father. the Mabit, R. Moses b. Joseph Trani (supra notes 4-11).
43. Supra note 35.
44. Responsa HaRosh 12:7.
45. Responsa Maharit(supra note 40)(2), 28.
46. Hilkhot Melakhim 5:12. based on b. Ketubot 110b. The author does not mention the Talmudic statement that immediately precedes this:“For anyone who lives in the Land of Israel. it is as if he has a God ; and anyone who lives outside the Land. it is as if he had no
47. See Solomon Zeitlin , Maimonides (New York : 1955), pp. 5-15: David Yellin and Israel Abrahams . Maimonides , His Life and Works, 3rd ed.(New York : 1972), pp. 24-38.
48. Hilkhot Melakhim 5:9.