Q&A: The Authority of the Talmud
The Authority of the Talmud
Question
Hello to His Honor, may he live long.
Many commentators struggle with why one cannot disagree with the Talmud, and why we accepted it upon ourselves; and I, the insignificant one, think there is a very simple reason for this: the Oral Torah was lost to us, and its last surviving remnant is found in the Talmud. Consequently, one cannot disagree with the Talmud, because it is the only source we have for the Oral Torah.
Answer
But in the Talmud there are opinions of Amoraim that are based on their own reasoning. That is not a tradition from Sinai. Why, regarding that, can one not disagree?
I have now asked Oren to insert the relevant section from Beit Yishai into the thread here:
https://mikyab.net/%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%AA/%D7%A1%D7%9E%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%92%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%90-%D7%95%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%AA-%D7%97%D7%9B%D7%9E%D7%AA-%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%A8-%D7%94%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%99/#comment-14512
By the way, I am not familiar with people who really wrestled with this. There are very few who addressed it, and those known to me took the approach brought in the above link.