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Pharisees and Sadducees

שו”תCategory: faithPharisees and Sadducees
asked 2 years ago

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How can we know the righteousness of the path of the rabbinic-Pharisaic law that pushed the Judean Desert Scrolls out of the canon in relation to the path of the tzaddik law?


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מיכי Staff answered 2 years ago
I don’t think it’s possible. The decision was made de facto. History has spoken.

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יצחק replied 2 years ago

Is this an argument from providence?
Because if there is no providence then theoretically maybe the Sadducees are the true keepers of the word of God, and rabbinical law randomly took over Judaism. No?

מיכי Staff replied 2 years ago

Not related to supervision. There are evolutionary processes in halacha, and thus the halacha that is accepted has a binding status. Certainly where you do not have a clear position, there is another system/opinion that is correct.
To the same extent, I do not know how to decide that Rabbi Yehuda is wrong, and yet they rule as if he did not intend and as if he did not intend and so on. Or as a rabbi against Abaye except for Yael KJM.

ץ replied 2 years ago

Why do you assume that accepted law has binding status,
This is itself a Pharisaic assumption. The assumption of the Judean Desert sects would speak of their correct law. Not religious evolution and that is why they withdrew to the desert.

מיכי Staff replied 2 years ago

Everyone claims to be right. So what? Logic says that there is validity to public acceptance, just like the covenant we made at Mount Sinai. I suppose the sects also admit that the system they accepted is binding on them.

מיכי Staff replied 2 years ago

As for dynamic tradition, see the latest Toray series (622 onwards).

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