Q&A: This Torah Shall Not Be Replaced — What a Veteran Student Will One Day Innovate
This Torah Shall Not Be Replaced — What a Veteran Student Will One Day Innovate
Question
I believe that this Torah shall not be replaced.
But Moses learned from the mouth of the Almighty everything that a veteran student would one day innovate.
So if that is the case, then there are going to be additions and interpretations and changes and teachings and Hasidic doctrine, etc.
So why is it that this Torah shall not be replaced?
What are the rules, and what falls outside them?
When am I Reform,
and when am I Hasidic?
Answer
This is much too general a question. You can read the series of columns on Modern Orthodoxy, and in greater detail in the third book of the trilogy, Movements Among the Standing.
I’ll just say: don’t build anything on an aggadic midrash like that. Almost the entire Torah was developed over the course of history. Moses received almost nothing. And one more remark: Hasidic doctrine has nothing whatsoever to do with innovations in Torah.