Errors in Talmud Torah
Hello.
When does Torah study based on error cease to be Torah study? Shimon Ha-Amsoni’s famous statement is that one receives Torah both on error and on recognition of error.
When I studied Torah and made a mistake in my understanding, was I practicing Torah study?
And if my friend, in my opinion, speaks nonsense, but does not retract it, has he nullified the Torah? And what about these and those words of the living God?
Good question. I don’t have the tools to answer it. In the accepted view, there is no such limit. Everyone who studies according to their understanding is engaged in studying Torah (everything that an old/young student will learn was told to Moses at Sinai). This sounds reasonable to me, because you never know whether you have hit the truth, and it is not reasonable that all the blessings of the Torah are always a doubtless blessing in vain.
Why are you asking about the friend who doesn’t go back on it? If he did go back on it, then it’s even more clear that he was talking nonsense before.
Shimon Ha-Amsoni says that one receives a salary, but I am not sure that it is a salary for studying Torah (although he compares retirement to a demand and a reward).
Regarding these and those, search here on the site. In my opinion, it is not pluralism (multiple truths) but tolerance (the possibility of legitimate errors).
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