Why in practice does it have no implication? At least according to Maimonides it is ruled as binding Jewish law.

Nobody pays attention to this prohibition, whatever its interpretation may be.

The fact that people don’t pay attention to what Jewish law says—does that make it permitted?

The oilam, not the world.

🤓Meaning????

Hi, Rabbi, this is a really fascinating question—not the practical question of what to avoid, but what the logic is behind not expounding publicly on the Account of Creation / the Chariot.

I’d be happy to hear a more detailed answer than what Maimonides writes, for example…

It’s a question that has interested me for a long time, and of course it depends on the issue of what exactly the Account of Creation is…

When I wrote “the oilam,” I meant the yeshiva joke that says we never talk about “the world” (= humanity as a whole, or the Jews) but about “the oilam” (= the kollel men, and by extension Torah-observant people and scholars). If the Jewish public that is bound by Jewish law—including the scholars and halakhic decisors—ignores something, it stops being binding Jewish law, especially if we’re talking about a rabbinic law (that was not accepted) or even a Torah-level law established by the Sages (through exposition or interpretation).
In this case, since there is no way to know what this law is saying, there is no possibility of observing it even if you want to. All the interpretations seem puzzling and strange.
And to Ezra: for that reason I also won’t write anything about it. I have nothing to say on the matter.

Thank you very much, Rabbi