[Avodah] Each tribe had different Torah?

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, March 16, 2007 1:39 pm, Zev Sero wrote:
:> Pesikta DeRav Cahane[via RDE -mi]: *R' Huna sated that
:> Moshe wrote 13 Sefer Torahs. Twelve were for the 12 Tribes and one was
:> given to Levi'im so that if one of Tribes wanted to elminate anything
:> from the Torah -- the Levi'im would be able to produce their Sefer Torah
:> and correct the false text.

: What if Shevet Levi decided to change their Torah?

I like RJJB's suggestion based on R' Hunah's sheivet.

However, why not simply say that he was stating the more probably situation?
Levi was entrusted with teaching and preserving the Torah. Throughout Bayis
Rishon, they were overwhelmingly the rabbinic leadership as well as their
roles in the BHMQ. (As they lived off terumos umaaseros, they probably were
the vast majority of people with time to learn safrus as well.)

Frankly, had sheivet Levi had wanted to subterfuge the mesorah, they could
have done enough to TSBP for any changes they could slip into TSBK to be of
little political difference.

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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