[Avodah] Halacha is about sources. Lo BaShamayim hi.

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

Regarding the construction of the Masoretic Text, I wrote:

> The story (assuming I remember it correctly) is not only
> illogical, but with all due respect, it borders on absurd. But
> because it was the valid result of a legal process, it has more
> authority, and is followed even today.

R' Zev Sero asked:

> What's absurd about it?  They were trying to reconstruct the
> original text, from three independent sources, *each* of which
> was subject to the usual problem of ...

First of all, I tried to be respectful, and wrote merely that it *borders* on absurd, not that it actually *is* absurd.

But that doesn't really answer your question. I hope this will:

What you described was an explanation of how the legal process works, and why it does make sense to agree. And I support it, and I hope that my first post didn't suggest that I have a better idea. My only point was that it strikes me as odd and a contradiction-in-terms, because the authority and kashrus of the newly-reconstructed Sefer Torah is based totally upon three other seforim which have now been declared to be passul.

The system works, and it works well. I'm just pointing out an odd little quirk with the system, that's all.

Akiva Miller

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