[Avodah] Lying to protect the simple of faith

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 12:16:00AM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
:> IOW, denying "Higher Criticism" doesn't mean denying "Lower Criticism"
:> or R' Meir's statement that we lost the true list of chaseiros and
:> yeseiros.

: Does the Rambam accept R Meir's statement lehalacha? ...

R' Meir's statement is one of historical fact, not halakhah.

The halachic question is: Given that we can't know for sure what existed
(or perhaps even if we could), which text is the one we must use?

As the CI writes, even if we found Ezra haSofeir's seifer Torah, we
would still be halachically bound to use the text the halachic process
mandates us to. Weave in the standard tanur shel achnai reference here.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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