Mishnayot Baryatot Tosefat
Those who teach halakha from their mishna are without a world. Does it mean that the mishna was not intended and is not suitable for teaching direct halakha from the beginning, or that after the halakha continued to “develop” it is no longer possible to teach directly from the mishna. Just as the Ge’onim taught directly from the Gemara, and today the teacher of halakha from the Gemara and skips over all the first and last ones, many people see him as a world-loser. In Egypt, probably in the generation after Maimonides, they taught halakha directly from Maimonides, but today we have Magen Avraham, the fruit of the Magi, who teach entire worlds and do not ignore them.
From the mishna itself it is very clear that it was not intended to dictate a law. Otherwise why did they bring differing opinions and not the opinion that was ruled as a law? And in general, there is no ruling in almost any mishna.
But there is more to this than that. A teaching from the Mishnah without understanding its interpretations and discussing the application of the words to the circumstances of the question is without a world. The Maharal elaborated on this in Netiv HaTorah, 55.
By the way, at least according to the Maharal (and also in my narrow minded opinion) this is not specifically related to the Mishnah, but rather refers to someone who memorizes a halakha from a specific text (even if it is a clear Mishnah), and not from his own discretion.
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Only the Arunat, the Mishnah explains why it brings about divided opinions: “Rabbi Yehuda said, then why are the words of one person mentioned among many in vain, that if a person says thus, I am accepted, it should be said to him, "You heard the words of such and such a person."
For example, the intention of the Mishnah in the instructions is that the Mishnah is intended for discussion within the Beit Midrash [a basis for discussion] and not as a book of versed halakhic law. In which it is less appropriate to say, "According to the words of so-and-so," but rather to simply cut out the halakhic law in this way.
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