[Avodah] ancient minhagim

[Eli Turkel]

<<You remind me of Moshe Rabeinu not knowing what Rabbi Akiva was  talking
about, and R' Akiva saying it's halacha leMoshe miSinai!  The story
implies that
whatever Chazal were later to deduce was already implicit in the  Torah that
Moshe received.>>

The implication is that Rambam and other rishonim wrote with Ruach HaKodesh
and implied meanings that they themselves did not realize.
I have no trouble that the Torah has messages that weren't decoded
until centuries
later since the earlier ones didnt have the means to understand certain ideas.
It is harder to say that Rambam wrote things that contained hidden meanings
(outside of Moreh Nevuchim where he says so explicitly)

The story goes that Brisk concentrated on Rambam precisely because he didnt
give reasons and it is easier to put ideas into a psak of the Rambam rather
than a Ran or Ritva or are more explicit

-- 
Eli Turkel