[Avodah] Explanation of the Tur?

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 22/06/17 04:29, Chana Luntz via Avodah wrote:
>> The gemara isn't filled with cultural instruction; no text (written or
>> memorized) can be. Pehrpas a story or two describing a case of it
>> occuring...

> I think it is, it is filled with ma'aseh rav - which then tends to trump the
> formal rules - we learn the halacha from a ma'aseh rav even against the
> formal rules, and certainly when following through on the formal rules.
> 
> If you rule out this kind of learning from TSBP, you are ruling out one of
> the key tools of halacha learning as not Torah.  Isn't that odd?

Indeed, it's an explicit gemara: "*Torah* hi, velilmod ani tzarich".

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