Question

Hello Rabbi,
I saw in the commentary of the Ritva and in Rabbenu Peretz that they were asked how it could be that “these and those are the words of the living God,” and they answered that the Holy One, blessed be He, presented all the possibilities and said that the matter would be entrusted to the sages of the generation. I do not understand what this means. If it means that each person should act according to his own understanding, and there is no absolute truth, then there is really no dispute between the disagreeing sides at all—each one is just saying what he thinks. And that is very strange.
I saw the Rabbi’s article on the subject, where you noted that there is no clear source for such a pluralistic approach, but that does seem to be what appears in the Ritva, and also in the Derashot HaRan, who wrote that the explanation of “these and those” is that the Torah was given subject to the judgment of the sages of Israel.
Thank you very much.