[Avodah] maaseh avot siman lebanim

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 11/25/2015 09:37 PM, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> So do you believe that when two talmidim of Rav Yochanan argue about what
> he meant, not only is one historically wrong, his position isn't Torah
> either, no eilu va'eilu, and the SA might be wrong in an absolue sense?

Just because he may have misremembered what R Yochanan said doesn't have
to mean that the opinion he misattributed to him is wrong.  Perhaps
R Yochanan saw one aspect of retzon haborei, and this student saw another
(which was why he thought that was what R Yochanan meant).  And perhaps
R Yochanan was not mechaven to the way the retzon haborei is supposed
to be expressed in the limited world of action, and the student was.

-- 
Zev Sero               All around myself I will wave the green willow
zev at sero.name          The myrtle and the palm and the citron for a week
                And if anyone should ask me the reason why I'm doing that
                I'll say "It's a Jewish thing; if you have a few minutes
                I'll explain it to you".