[Avodah] History

[David Riceman]

hlampel at koshernet.com wrote:
> RMB wrote:
> Chazal ... when they draw halachic conclusions, it
>   
> can't be from the history -- since that would
> imply an interest in historicity that numerous
> rishonim tell us didn't
> exist. <
>
> Which rishonim and where? 
>   
See PHM Avoth 1:16, ed. Sheilat, p. 19, s.v. "v'hahelek hashlishi".  See 
SA OH 307:16, though I had thought that attitudes changed somewhat after 
Ibn Khaldun demonstrated that history could be a form of hochmah.

David Riceman