[Avodah] Eilu v'eilu

[Richard Wolberg]

Reb Micha wrote:

Halakhah is not to be dictated from above, but to be worked by man according
to His rules.

 

This may be just semantics but I disagree and feel Halakhah is most
certainly dictated from above. Are you saying that the aseres hadibros were
not dictated from above? Are you saying that the prohibition of shaatnez was
not dictated from above? (And I can go on and on and on)... Yes, I agree
that man interprets, but the Torah which is the source has been dictated
from above. Hence, the statement that halacha is not to be dictated from
above is not accurate in my understanding.

 

Reb Micha wrote regarding Rosh Chodesh: "but it's not the testimony or the
moon which causes it to happen, it's the declaration."

 

Isn't the Luach comparable to a declaration albeit in advance?

 

Finally: "Why do you assume halakhah is supposed to be objective?"

 

For the same reason we have absolute versus relative morality.... I see
subjective halacha as relative. Again, this may be a semantic argument.

 

Kol tuv/best regards.

ri

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