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The authority of the sages against Scripture

שו”תCategory: faithThe authority of the sages against Scripture
asked 7 years ago

peace,
I wanted to ask a question.
When we have in the written Torah an explicit command to do x, and the sages interpret it differently as y. Why should we follow the sages and not the Torah? After all, the Torah was written from the mouth of God and the sages claimed it from their own mouth. Or is it reasonable to assume that an error has occurred throughout the generations to the extent that the same law comes from Sinai.
I haven’t heard a good excuse for this question. I would be happy if the rabbi could help.
Just an example of this, it is said in the Torah, “And his master brought him to God, and he brought him to the door or to the mezuzah, and his master pierced his ear with an awl, and he served him forever.” While the Sages require this as the door next to the mezuzah.


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מיכי Staff answered 7 years ago
Tradition says that the Toshbap was given together with the Toshbak. Beyond that, the sermon can contradict the Peshta and there is no contradiction. The Peshta stands in its place and the sermon in its place, and both are binding. Beyond that, even the sages who proposed such an interpretation understood that it was against the Peshta. There is no reason to assume that there was a distortion, although it is necessary to discuss why they interpreted it this way and not according to the Peshta. And I answered that above.

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מתנאל replied 7 years ago

You wrote;
Beyond that, the sermon can contradict the plain text and there is no contradiction. The plain text stands in its place and the sermon stands in its place and both are binding. – How are both binding, if one follows the plain text and the sermon together?

Beyond that, even the sages who proposed such an interpretation understood that it was against the plain text. – This is part of the problem….

There is no reason to assume that there was a disruption, although it is necessary to discuss why they interpreted it this way and not according to the plain text. And I answered that above. – Where did you answer above?

מתנאל replied 7 years ago

What I meant in the first part is that how can it be said that both are obligatory? After all, the religious claim that only the sermon is obligatory in the observance of daily halakha.

y replied 7 years ago

From the author, I wrote an article establishing the authority of the resident, and I addressed at length, among other things, the contradiction between the resident and the resident, which you can see here in chapters 6 and 7:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mK1MZ7j0Y0fB5ljZpVqSw5beZZwIYuN6/view

מתנאל replied 7 years ago

Thanks, I'll look into it later.

Do you have a name for the example settlement I brought up? I mean, pierced his ear with a door or a mezuzah?

I know the answers to basic contradictions like an eye for an eye, which speaks of what should be maintained in the offender, a kind of ideal reality for example.
But in my example, there is no possibility of such a settlement.

y replied 7 years ago

Yes. This is not a specific settlement of this or that contradiction, but rather general explanations of why the Toshâbâ should not be rejected because of its contradiction to the Toshâbâ (for example, that the Toshâbâ represents the ancient halakha from the time of the desert, and the Toshâbâ represents the later halakha from the time of the entry into the Land). Overall, I want to compare the status of tradition to the status of the written word, and in any case, in the event of a contradiction between them, the tradition should not be automatically rejected.

מיכי Staff replied 7 years ago

Indeed, when it is impossible to fulfill both, the Harash is the determining factor. In many cases, both are implemented together. I have already answered the question.

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