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asked 4 years ago

Hello Rabbi
Following the reading of Rabbi Jonathan Sachs’ book (Radical Then, Radical Now) in which he raises the question of the author of the Akida, what is it that obliges each of us to be faithful to the Torah given at Sinai, since we were not there, etc.,
I wanted to ask the Rabbi’s opinion on the answer to this question, what obligates us to make a covenant, if it was not made with our consent and in our presence (Irgun, the accepted argument about the souls who were present there means nothing to me)
And also, what is the Rabbi’s opinion on the contents of Rabbi Sachs. (In general)

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מיכי Staff answered 4 years ago

I don’t know enough to form an opinion on his writings. As for the question, the description as if all the souls were standing there is of course a metaphor. The intention is that the Torah was given to the public and therefore binds the public and not just the collection of individuals who stood there. And the public includes all the individuals who are and will be in it (see Toss. Meila 9:22 and more). Just as a law enacted in the Knesset today will bind the citizens of the country even in a hundred years (as long as it is not changed).

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