[Avodah] Reish Lakish

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 10:21:46AM -0400, David Riceman wrote:
: Rich, Joel wrote:
:> 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.

: Wow! Are we to conclude that the dictum "eilu v'eilu divrei elokim 
: hayyim" is also apikorsus according to these opinions? How about all of 
: the Tannaim and Amoraim (and ...) who disagreed with each other?

This addressed his "as well as", but RJR raises a good point.

It seemed obvious to me that different people find this "eilu" vs that
"eilu" because of their own lives and kishronos. However, take this
idea to far and one ends up with the heresy of the Historical School --
that Torah is created by personal need and expediency.

Saying personal negius would determine which aspect of amitah shel Torah
one most readily sees is different than saying that the negius /replace/
the search for emes. But drawing the line between them is non-trivial.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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