[Avodah] Malachim & mistakes

[Daniel Eidensohn]

On 10/9/2011 3:28 PM, Zev Sero wrote:
> On 7/10/2011 12:11 PM, Prof. Levine wrote:
>> There is an attitude that one often hears today, "Everything is in 
>> the Torah."  When I hear someone say this, I ask, "Where do you find 
>> the Pythagorean Theorem in the Torah?"  This is always met with silence.
>>
>> We are told that there is Chochma amongst the gentiles, but they do 
>> not have Torah.  If so, then Chochma, it seems to me, is not Torah 
>> and hence not in the Torah.  Therefore, it seems to me that 
>> everything is not to be found in the Torah.  YL
>
> "Istakel be'oraisa uvera alma".  Therefore everything in the world must
> be in the Torah.
I once asked this question to Rabbi Freifeld - he responded, "Everything 
is in the Torah but there is no one today who can find everything in it."