[Avodah] R Tzadok-TSBP

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RMM:
> Professor Yaakov
> Elman describes how according to Rabbi Tzadok, the Oral Law is such
> that although Moshe received the whole Torah at Sinai, it was all in
> potential (b'koah), and only later did Rabbi Akiva (based on Menahot
> 29b) bring it out into actuality (b'po'al). Elman then writes,

>> The process [of bringing that which was inchoate (b'koah) out
>> into actuality (b'po'al)] did not end here [with the writing of the
>> Talmud]. Each successive effort of codification of Oral Law added to
>> the Written Torah, ..

Here is a simple picture:

Torah is termed "Etz Hayyim"

Moshe Rabbeinu brought down the seeds for this Etz Hayyim. Those seeds
contained all the DNA necessary for Torah to sprout as an etz hayyim
over time.

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Caveat:
AISI Ezra and Anshei knesses hagedloah were every bit as much manifestors
as R Akiva. Maybe the hiddush of R Akiva was that he was post hurban.
The the first would really be RYBZ

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To give another mashal:
Torah was a set of rules and syntax much like a computer programming
language. Even the author of a programming language would not anticiapte
every potential subsequent application or algorithm.

While the Omniscient
HKBH could foresee the endless possibilities Moshe Rabbeinu probably
could not. (IOW the sum total of Torah is greater Than Moshe)
OTOH Moshe COULD judge if a given application conformed to the rules
... but even then over time even that might be hard to do as struxtures
build upon structures (EG Moshe during Rabbi Akiva's shiur)

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There are AIUI (at least) 2 dinnim in TSBP:

1 Those explicit -or even implicit - misinai
Explicit. EG:
Mipi hashemua Or HLMM
Implicit EG:
>From 13 Middos


2 Those g'zeiros, taqqanos, and pisqei din by Beis Din haggadol etc.

AIUI the Mechilta Sifra Sifre style dominated early TSBP (type 1) but
as collected psaq grew type 2 dominated and Mishna evolved (from R Aqiva
onwards). (Loosely based upon Iggeres de R. Sh'rira Gaon).

R Aqiva, R Meir, and Rebbe resorted the TSBP from a passuk index to a
subject index

And R Yishmael R Hiyya  R Hoshaya et. Al. Preserved the old index

KT
RRW
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