[Avodah] ancient minhagim

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 12:20:34AM -0500, T613K at aol.com wrote:
: 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.

Or, as Rashi takes it, that MRAH had that vision before the end of the 40
days. And that by the time Moshe was ready to come down the mountain,
he did learn how to derive mountains of halakhos from the tagin on
the letters.

I agree with RnTK's take, but the meaning of that medrash isn't a given.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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