[Avodah] Kinyan on Shabbas? (Har Sinai)

[Micha Berger]

Some side notes...

The comparison of matan Torah to a qinyan, a wedding or avdus isn't
necessarily halachic. Mistabeir it's on an aggadic level, and this whole
question doesn't really begin.

Also, given my attitude toward the historical accuracy of aggadita,
I wouldn't assume that placing Matan Torah on Shabbos is a historical
claim. Nor would I assume it isn't. The point is the nimshal, not a
study of history. History and legend were blindly mixed because the
question is just off topic to talmud Torah.

The notion that the avos kept kol haTorah kulah, even deRabbanans, is
also an aggadic story, and is as likely or not to be historical. But
it's not made about BY.

All that said, it seems to be the rules of aggadic stories, even the ones
that aren't historical, that they do not have any of the "good guys"
doing something we wouldn't. And so we still find peirushim trying to
justify things on a halachic basis.

Which was the thing I was trying to do here. I don't think there is
any reason to believe there actually was a qinyan of any sort done on
Shabbos as part of Matan Torah. Still, because Chazal use that metaphoric
language, it must be able to work halachically -- or else they would
have chosen different metaphors.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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