[Avodah] Lying to protect the simple of faith

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:51:32PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
: >R' Meir's statement is one of historical fact, not halakhah.

: It's R Meir's opinion on the fact, and its halachic consequences.

Correction: R' Yosef. See Qiddushin 30a. Sorry.

Its halachic consequences is that we can't darshen cheseiros veyeseiros
-- to which the Rambam agrees. R' Yosef's context is entirely aggadic --
whether the vav in gachon is in the first half or the second half of
the Torah. (Which doesn't even close to work from a straight count,
requiring much non-literal circumlocution, anyway.)

: Does the Rambam agree with him?  According to the Rambam, if we find
: a mistake in chaterot viyterot do we take out a new sefer? ...

I think the Rambam would say R' Yosef would require the Torah to be
replaced. Having a requirement to have a specific text doesn't stand
on requiring that we know that text was the spelling given Moshe.
(Which is what I was trying to say about R [Yosef]'s statement being
one of historical fact, not halakhah.)

In Yechaveh Da'as 6:56, ROY cites R' Avraham ben haRambam, the Meiri,
the Radvaz, and too many others for me to retain without having taken
notes that the only other variants that would still make up a valid Torah
are those backed by an ancient mesorah. And thus ROY allows Sepharadi
use of Teimani sefarim.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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