Timeline for Source for a Maharal I learned a while back...help
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| Mar 8, 2017 at 5:31 | comment | added | Bob Barr | Thanks. I corrected the typos. My transliteration has always been somewhat haphazard. Yes, I am familiar with the various positions on bal tosif. Yehudah Halevi has by far the most sobering of rationales: he says in Kuzari that the rabbis did in fact add but bal tosif didn't apply to them! It's a very refreshing and scary answer all at once. Refreshing because its nice to see a great mind Jewish mind take Occam's Razor and admit what seems obvious. At the same time, scary because Y Halevi introduced a very slippery slope. | |
| Mar 8, 2017 at 5:30 | history | edited | Bob Barr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 8, 2017 at 5:25 | comment | added | mevaqesh | +1 That's bal tosif; בל; not baal; בעל. Regarding Rambam's approach to why rabbinic additions arent bal tosif, see judaism.stackexchange.com/a/53364/8775. Regarding the broader question of why they are authorised to legislate, and why it isnt circular, see judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/65924/…. | |
| Mar 8, 2017 at 5:13 | history | answered | Bob Barr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |