[Avodah] Another approach to Ruth's geirus

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 29/05/17 08:23, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 11:04:06PM -0400, Zev Sero via Avodah wrote:
> : Yiftach was also the "godol hador", but woe is to the generation
> : that has such "gedolim".
> 
> According to the article RJR pointed us to last Thu, Mesoret haTSBP
> beTequfat haShofetim uviYmei Sha'ul haMelekh, by R' Daniel Yehudah
> Neustadt<http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=20252&pgnum=474>,
> this is a machloqes between Rashi and the Rambam.
> 
> Rashi shares your identification of the Shofetim with the zeqeinim
> of "Moshe qibel Torah miSinai umasruha liYhoshua, viYhoshua lizqainim".
> 
> But the Rambam does not assume the shofetim were the standard bearers
> of our mesorah. Which would explain why he uses Pinechas to skip past
> that whole era: Moshe, Yehoshua, Pinechas, Eli, Shemu'el...

I actually had that article in mind, but was not taking Rashi's side. 
Whether Yiftach was a link in the chain through which the mesorah 
reached us is a machlokes, but lechol hade'os he was the "godol hador" 
-- that's an explicit gemara, "Yiftach Bedoro Kishmuel Bedoro".  So even 
if Machlon & Kilyon were considered "gedolei hador" that wouldn't seem 
to be sufficient reason to assume that they acted properly, even in the 
sense that they had an opinion which is one of the shiv'im panim and 
followed it.

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Zev Sero                May 2017, with its *nine* days of Chanukah,
zev at sero.name           be a brilliant year for us all