[Avodah] Eilu v'eilu

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:37:18AM +0000, Kenneth Miller via Avodah wrote:
: Regardless of how the Bas Kol might be interpreted, is there any way
: to understand "Nitzchuni banai!" other than Hashem personally siding
: with one of the litigants, and losing?

I don't see the closing of the story adding any problems the nissim
themselves didn't. If you think they were about Hashem backing one
side, then "nitzchui banai" is about that sice being defeated. If
not, then it's whatever over reason He had for presenting misleading
evidence that was defeated.

Leshitas those who don't take eilu va'eilu literally and intead use
a more classical logic with a law of contradition, the whole story
is about HQBH choosing the process as a whole over the correctness
of this one particular ruling.

HQBH rejoicing that the chakhamim maintained the kelalei pesaq as they
should rather than pay attention to His interferance. As the Maharitz
Chayes understands it, by keeping the process viable, they keep the
Torah eternal, capable of speaking to new circumstances as the world
changes. "Nitzchuni banai -- My children have made Me eternal!"

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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