[Avodah] Denying that Chazal are Oral Torah is Kefira?

[Micha Berger]

On Sat, April 12, 2008 11:59 pm, Richard Wolpoe wrote:
: 1. do we HAVE the correct Girsa in the Bavli?
: 2. Would the CI hold thatRuach hakdoesh also applies to flaky/suspect
:    girsaos?

I didn't understand the CI to invoke RhQ. Rather, he invoked halachic
process plus mentioning as a 2nd layer that there is siyata diShmaya
involved in the process so that even a conclusion reached by accident
was reached because it is of value. But the authority is that of the
process, not of being able to get to the right girsa. "Nitzchuni
banai!"

For example, he is quoted in the same letter as saying that we know
our sifrei Torah are NOT the original text (on a spelling level; as
per R' Meir's "yeseiros vecheseiros"). They took the majority of three
sefarim to reconstruct the Torah after churban bayis. The result
didn't match any of the 3 originals. And yet, if we were to find
Ezra's or MRAH's seifer Torah, we would have to use ours and not
switch to theirs.

That's not an issue of having the historically correct girsa, it's an
issue of the processes defining correctness.

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha

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