Relying on Chazal for the Strength of Rabbis Today

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asked 8 months ago

Hello, Your Honor!

I wonder to myself, after all, the Torah contains many divine commandments and commandments, but I noticed that in fact most of our conduct during the day, such as prayers, blessings, and more, does not come directly from the Torah, but from the Sages. Of course, these things are binding from the words of the sages, but it is still only rabbinic and not from Torah. I thought about the fact that in our generation there are many people who study Torah day and night, and yet their views sometimes feel far removed from Judaism in the way I perceive it. What makes us think that the Sages were not mistaken in their understanding of the Torah? Why do we act according to the words of the Sages in everything? Why not treat it like the Karaites?

Thank you very much!

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מיכי Staff answered 8 months ago

First, almost everything we have is from the Sages, including the laws of the Torah. Except for the laws that the Sadducees acknowledge (those that are explicitly written in the Torah). Second, the commitment to them does not stem from the fact that they are necessarily right, but rather from the fact that we have decided that the Talmud is the binding framework. The commitment to the Sanhedrin also does not stem from the fact that it is necessarily right, but rather from the fact that the Torah gave it authority from “not to deviate.” And finally, the commitment is not to opinions but to halakhic rulings. The opinions of the sages are not binding.

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