[Avodah] incorrect learning of Torah

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 07/20/2016 02:48 PM, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> Tosafos is talking about a case where the student is being presented
> false ideas by an incompitent melamed. Isn't that more similar to my
> first scenario than my second -- albeit much less extreme quantitatively?

Exactly.  He is not talking about learning one of the shiv'im panim
latorah that isn't currently the accepted halacha, he's talking about
learning a mistranslation of chumash.   "Es zechar `Amalek" is not Torah
at all, and one gets no reward for learning it even if one sincerely
thought it was Torah.   As my father puts it, the Torah also has "shiv'im
achor", and this is one of them.  And when one has been taught such a
false translation of chumash one can't progress in Torah, because one
is starting from a false foundation and it never even occurs to one to
question it.


-- 
Zev Sero               Meaningless combinations of words do not acquire
zev at sero.name          meaning merely by appending them to the two other
                        words `God can'.  Nonsense remains nonsense, even
                        when we talk it about God.   -- C S Lewis