[Avodah] second shoresh of sefer hamitzvot

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 02:14:31PM +0300, Eli Turkel wrote:
: 2) Moshe Rabbenu knew only general rules. The later rabbis developed
: details and used the derashot to base them. Similar to grammar (dikduk)
: where people knew intuitively the rules but only many centuries later were
: formal rules developed.

R Dr Moshe Koppel's Metahalakhah... A native speaker doesn't need to
learn formal rules, exept in special and complicated cases. Someone
learning English as a second language is more likely to know what the past
pluperfect is than a native speaker. Similarly, halakhah should be known
as a native speaker. But as we get further from Sinai, more and more needs
to be formalized into rules your can articulate and pass on. (Related:
Rupture and Reconstruction.) Including shakhechum vechazar veyasdum --
Osniel ben Kenaz formalized the laws lost by the cultural collaps of
Moshe's petirah; the AKhG formalized the laws lost when we assimilated
elements of Ashuri and Bavli culture.

Obviously the mishnah was a major step in that direction.

A hora'as sha'ah is kind of like poetic license -- being immersed enough
to know when the grammar can and should absorb being bent despite the
formal rules not having room for it.

Search the archives for Koppel and Metahakhah; I have done better
summaries in the past.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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