<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; ">"Tefillin, for example, was left a machloqes for millenia. Yigal Yadin<br>found evidence of the machloqes back in the days of a Sanhedrin, and it<br>lasted into the 12th century (Rabbeinu Tam was born in 1100 CE).<br><br>Tzitzis in the days of the Sanhedrin were tied in a wide variety of ways.<br>The geonim, rishonim and achronim come to many different recommendations<br>given the conflicting sources."</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">I thought the purpose of the Torah She-b'al peh was to illuminate the protocol for many things such as T'fillin and Tzitzis.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">Therefore, why would there have been conflicting sources when the main source is from God?</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">ri</font></div></body></html>