Q&A: The Second Root
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The Second Root
Question
Where did you write about this—or where did you write more extensively—about the idea that Scripture was entrusted to the sages, the authority of exegetical derivations, and so on? In He Sent Forth His Roots or in The Spirit of Justice?
Answer
I didn’t go into great length on the idea that Scripture was entrusted to the sages. There is an article about it in HaMa’ayan.
In the article on the second root, and in the second part of The Spirit of Justice, there is an extended discussion of the status of exegetical derivations.