[Avodah] gemara narrative

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:47:21PM +0000, Rich, Joel via Avodah wrote:
: When you are learning gemara and you come to a give and take where
: the hava amina seems strange (e.g. maakot 14a...          the answer
: is ein haci nami?! -- so why record the whole misattribution of reason,
: and how did they know/not know)

Building a parallel to Edios 1:4 and why the mishnah bothers recording
divrei beis Shammai.... Perhaps the whole point is that people were
making this mistake, maybe it hit the grapevine, and therefore ruling
it out had to be made explicit and recorded. So that the strange hava
amina never rears its head again unanswered.

IOW, not that the gemara seriously entertained it, but the gemara wanted
to codify its rejection.

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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