[Avodah] Darshening etim

[Zev Sero]

On 26/6/19 6:06 pm, Rich, Joel via Avodah wrote:

> The language of the story has his students questioning what will
> happen to all his previous drashot and his answering he’ll get reward
> anyway. The answer doesn’t seem to directly address the question.
> Perhaps they were asking whether the halacha will change or will
> other drashot be found to replace these?
I have always understood that they were asking whether his life's work 
was wasted, and he answered that it was not, because it was an honest 
attempt at determining the Torah's meaning, so it counts as talmud 
Torah, whereas had he spent his life trying to prove a mathematical 
theorem that turned out to be wrong it would indeed have been wasted.

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