[Avodah] Inconsistencies in following tannaim

[Rich, Joel]

The problem I'm having is that this line of thought, taken from my blog,
seems to me to be so compelling (even stripped of the Maharal's
model) that I don't see where the error is. So, can someone read this
(particularly the ending) and help me out?


: Someone who changes the weights to find a desired result is no longer
: simplifying an Infinite Truth to fit it into this universe. Different
: shadows of the same object are each valid. But if you trace the shadow
: while changing the direction of the lighting mid-stream, you are left
: with a picture something that isn't a shadow of the original. The
: weighting can't simply be to justify the result; and in that sense
: even including human cost is different than ends-driven decision
making
: (picking the pesaq to fit some non-Torah desire). The weighting
system,
: the angle of the light, is the a priori -- and must itself be a
product
: of the halakhos of making halakhah.

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha

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Conceptually (or as my wife likes to say - "In Joelworld") I would agree
with you.  Practically the empirical data imho doesn't support the
hypothesis as well as one would like (i.e the simplest explanation of
many halachik phenomena is that the weighting system was affected by the
desired ends - which of course is then explained as "halakhos of making
halakhah" to those who wish to maintain the purity of the system.) In
this explanation, where does the "halachik heart" fit in (halakhos of
making halakhah?)

KT
Joel Rich
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