[Avodah] mesorah

[Rich, Joel]

4. I brought separately that R. Dessler felt that Rabbenu Tam changed the order of the parshiyot in the tefillin based on his learning of the gemara. He obvious was not overly concerned about the previous Mesorah.
R. Dessler explains that this was because there was no clear written mesorah in Talmudic or Gaonic writings. The mesorah of what was practiced by the kehilla was not of paramount importance.

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Eli Turkel
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More interesting to me is that R' Dessler aiui did not have this as a mesorah - the question is which highly valued constructs required him to come up with this approach to minimize his cognitive dissonance?

KT
Joel Rich
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