[Avodah] Apparently conflicting Stam Mishna

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 10:20:01AM -0400, Looking ForInspiration via Avodah wrote:
: Up until the end of the 4th Perek of Baba Kama, Stam Mishna holds that
: when there is doubt, Hamotzi Mechavero Olov Horaayah. In the 5th Perek,
: it holds that when in doubt, you divide the money in doubt. Does this
: mean that Shisha Sidrei Mishna does not have just one author?

It didn't. The mishnah took a 3 generation process: R' Aqiva, R Meir
and Rebbe. Stam mishnah is usually like R Meir, although the gemara
at times proves a different maqor, not even the final redactor.

(Stam Sifra keRabbi Yehudah, even though the Sifra is not by Rebbe,
but by his student, Rav.)

You have statements like on RH 19b, where you're told the mishnah is not
in accord with R" Yehudah haNasi. So the notion that the opinion of the
mishnah is necessarily the opnion of the redactor is not a given. Nor
is the stam mishnah always R' Meir. Therefor conflicting opinions isn't
proof of multiple redactors. (Although,as I wrote, redaction was one
school, not one person.)

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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