[Avodah] Halacha as a System

[Rich, Joel via Avodah]

Do you view Halacha as a system that seeks a single ultimate original truth(or a truth determined prior to a particular point in Jewish history) or one focused on a chronologically monotonic historical process (i.e. do we care what the Rambam originally thought or only how the baalei mesorah understood him through time)?  If the latter, is this because this is what HKB"H commanded or because the rabbis determined this to be how an effective legal system must work?

KT
Joel Rich

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