[Avodah] Reish Lakish

[Rich, Joel]

And on this week's parashah (in Sanhedrin 108a): Rav Yochanan takes
tamim hayah bedorosav as a genai; to RL, who knew what being in a
negative environment could mean, it is shevach.

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha
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I was thinking about this this morning on the way to work.  Is it
apikorsus according to at least some hashkafic strains to say that one's
torah opinions are formed based in part on personal experiences since it
might imply personal nigiut as well as different people reaching
different conclusions on amita shel torah when there can (may?) be only
one amita shel torah.

Further, wasn't R"Y R"L's primary rebbi(and they both may have shared R'
Yehuda nesia)? If so how could R"L have a different mesora on this
(specific or general) issue or could it be at some level (I'm trying to
sound frum :-)) each read into it based on their own lev shel torah
which is informed upon by many things in life (even if you say these
were both ancient mesora's - how did they start off being different? Why
did they pick different versions to champion?)

Lastly, in modern discussion issues, isn't R"L suspect (at some level)in
all areas having had non-torah early input? (see especially Bava Metzia
84a)  If so, how do we know where to accept his opinion as apparently
authoritative  and where not?

Shabbat Shalom
Joel Rich
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