[Avodah] Who is a Talmid Chacham

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 01:50:59PM +0300, Doron Beckerman wrote:
: I concede that there is a Machlokes Rishonim as to whether the Shoftim
: themselves were part of the Shalsheles Hakabbalah. The Rambam in his
: Hakdamah to Mishneh Torah, which I took as authoritative, conspicously
: skips over them, since he maintained that the Shalsheles went through the
: heads of Beis Din - Pinchas to Eli. See Avodas Hamelech there...

Looking at the Avodas haMelekh's separation between limud, qabbalah and
mesirah, I had the following thought:

I'm not sure there is a machloqes in substance. It could be a difference
in definition of terms. Rebbe-talmid from Moshe Rabbeinu to R' Yehudah
haNasi might not run through the avos beis din. While halachic authority
would. They might simply be describing different chains.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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