[Avodah] R Tzadok-TSBP

[Rich, Joel]

I have been hesitating to post this.

I think WADR that both Rambam and Hirsch fell into similar traps!

Viz. Since they had a holistic view of Torah they posited and subscribed to a kind of "unified field theory"

But in both cases it breaks down in some details.

Perhaps that is the nature of humans - ki lo machshevosai machshevosaichem...

In order to portray torah accurately one would needed a "higher" birds-eye view to encompass the whole; and as high as Rambam and Hirsch were they were not high enough to formulate a system that encompassed it all!

Look how flat the earth looks from the ground And how round from outer space!

Perhaps if either one had ascended higher they could have refined their systems to encompass more - Or more likely - no human gets that high!

And even if Moshe Rabbeinu knew all the correct prattim, even he may not have been able for formulate a unifying theory.

KT
RRW
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I would say ein hachi nami, but they both tried to get as close as they could (i.e. improve the then existing approximation to the extent they could) within the resources given to them by HKB"H (which is what we all try to do?)
KT
Joel Rich
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