<div dir="ltr"><pre>R' Micha Berger wrote:</pre><pre>On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 01:54:06PM +0200, Marty Bluke wrote:
: The fact that there is a fundamental dispute about the nature of dispute
: in Halacha is quite disturbing in and of itself...
Why? There could be dispute about the nature of gravity but that
doesn't shake my confidence in our ability to describe how it acts
(F = G m1*m2 / r<sup class=""><span style="display:inline-block;width:0px;height:0px;overflow:hidden">^</span>2</sup>).
Tir'u baTov!
-Micha</pre><pre>That is a silly comparison. Matan Torah happened 3500 years ago and Bnei Yisrael got the Torah including the Oral Torah and presumably at that point it was revealed to them how the halachic system worked. In fact, the nature of the revelation (everything, partial, no conclusions) would have made it crystal clear what the nature of the system was as the 3 options given are mutually exclusive and cannot all be true. They also require different revelations at Har Sinai. Therefore it makes sense to ask how was this forgotten? On the other hand I don't think anyone claims that 3500 years ago God revealed to us the nature of gravity. </pre>
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