[Avodah] Ben Sorer Umoreh

[Akiva Blum]

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> [mailto:avodah-bounces at lists.aishdas.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Israel


Akiva Blum wrote:
> >See Sanhedrin 71a. Hagohos haBach learns that it is intrinsically 
> >impossible.
> 
> The loshon in the gemara is "lo hayah, v'lo l'asid lihiyos."  It 
> would seem to me that pshat in the gemara is that it is impossible. 
>   If it is merely unlikely, how could the gemara know that it won't 
> ever happen in the future?
> 
> The Bach simply gives a sevarh why it is impossible.
> 

But the Gemara then brings two more cases with the same "lo hayah, v'lo l'asid
lihiyos" and both of them are cases which would be extremely unlikely, but not
necessarily impossible.

Akiva