[Avodah] Halachic who is right from "The Lost Scotch"

[Ken Bloom]

On Wednesday 28 March 2007 14:56, Daniel Israel wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:45:35 -0600 Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org>
>
> wrote:
> >Then there is Hillel's kol haTorah kulah al regel achas,
> >"De'aleikh sani..." Somehow, assuming infinite knowledge and
>
> intellect,
>
> >all of halakhah can be derived from this simple rule.
>
> It's a beautiful vort, and a fascinating philosophical jumping of
> point, but I'm not convinced that you have to read the Gemara that
> way.  Is "kol HaTorah kulah" meant literally, or, given the fact
> that this was an answer to a perhaps unanswerable question, can't
> we say Hillel was giving a closest possible answer, but without the
> deeper ramification you are suggesing?

You should have a look at Sefer Ahavat Yisrael by the Baba Sali, where 
he explains how 127 different mitzvot are hinted at in the verse 
v'ahavta l'reiecha kamocha.

http://www.nehora.com/moreinfo.cfm?Product_ID=739

--Ken

-- 
Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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