[Avodah] ancient minhagim

[Zev Sero]

David Riceman wrote:
  
> Don't forget the Talmudic practice "la'asukei Shama'tsa aliba 
> d'hilchasa", which I would translate as "to construe a text so that it 
> will harmonize with normative halacha".  Normally that implies that the 
> text is not being read kipshuto.

I have understood that to mean that one merits to hit on the correct
interpretation.  Not to already know the halacha and deliberately force
the source text to match it, but to interpret the source as best one can,
and then to find that it matches the halacha, and therefore that one got
it right.

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