[Avodah] Truth and the Rambam

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 03:09:28PM -0400, I replied to RZL:
:: One cannot deny the fact that the principle methodology by which the 
:: poskim and Talmud determine the halacha is through citing precedent and 
:: assuming that there is an original intent to reach for. Otherwise, it 
:: would be pointless for any amora to pit a contradiction to another from 
:: an earlier and higher authority. His opponent could always answer, 
:: "Hah!...that's the way you, or Aharon HaKohen heard it at Sinai, but I'm 
:: saying how I, or Nachshon ben Amindava heard it at Sinai!"
...
: And yes, they do often answer this why. "Ha R' Meir, ha R' Yehudah"
: boils down to just that. You have your development of the ideas
: HQBH gave us, I have mine.

HQBH has a sense of humor. On Shabbos's Y-mi yomi, Terumos 54a, the
Y-mi brings a setirah between two maamarim stated besheim R' Yonasan.
R' Shemuel bar nachman replies to the chevraya, "Ana mah desham'is,
ve'inun mah desham'is."

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha