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

[Rich, Joel]

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[mailto:avodah-bounces at lists.aishdas.org] On Behalf Of Micha Berger
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:55 PM
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Subject: Re: [Avodah] Denying that Chazal are Oral Torah is Kefira?

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 06:33:54PM -0400, Rich, Joel wrote:
:> For example, [the CI] is quoted in the same letter as saying that we
know
:> our sifrei Torah are ...     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.

: Would you say this statement would hold true even if Sanhedrin were
: restarted?

I'm sorry. You need to repeat the question with more explanation,
because I didn't keep up.

At the time they took the "vote", there was a Sanhedrin.

And wouldn't a Sanhedrin mean there is more authority to construct
halakhah (defining correctness), and therefore /less/ role for having to
determine what was decided to be correct in earlier generations?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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Sorry, I was asking in theory if Sanhedrin were restarted today could
they vote that the girsa we have (BTW is it ashkenaz or sfard?) is
incorrect and use a different one (or just have us all use one)

KT & CKVS
Joel Rich
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