[Avodah] lo plog

[Rich, Joel]

IOW, because of all of the above, reproducing halakhah would require knowing more history than is possible to.

And last, you need to have daas Torah, that absorbtion in the Torah Weltanschaunng to the extent of being able to fill in the gaps between the rules of pesaq, to go from conflicting sevaros and shitos to lemasseh. Is that reproducible?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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#1 is a technical point, I would guess that in theory in an oral tradition world you would do the best you could to understand the "history" to determine if change in the new world was necessary.

#2 is the point I've been getting at for a while- that the baalei mesorah have tremendous flexibility and go on "instinct".  So who determines who is a baal mesorah?  In the end is it the Jewish people choose their leaders and thus leaders need to stay within a certain range?

KT
Joel Rich
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