Regarding Miriam Whiteman’s article
Hello Rabbi
I read Miriam Weitman’s article. It is indeed a difficult article. What I fail to understand is that even if it is stated outright that Rabbi Yehuda the Hasid and his disciples did indeed believe this, what would they do if there were explicit rulings? Miriam Weitman’s third suggestion that they might have ruled as a different opinion in the Bira is also a very difficult suggestion.
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Shalom Harav
I find it a little difficult to accept the second claim, because treating what is written in the Torah as if it was given from Sinai even though part of it was not given explicitly detracts from its divine validity. Apart from those firstborns in the article, are there others who believe this or do the rest believe, like Maimonides, that everything was given from Sinai?
And what about laws that were renewed throughout the generations? Do they have validity? If the verse “And Lotan's sister forbade” was added after a time, does that break your faith? The addition and editing were probably also made by prophets according to the ’, and therefore I see no problem in principle with this.
As I wrote to you, when they say that everything was given from Sinai, they can certainly also be inclined to make a normative and not a historical statement. But I don't think it matters which of the first thought or did not think so.
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