- Q. Kvodo Shlit’a, Since it is so important for us to tell the truth and live only with it, how can we listen to Torah speakers that tell Divrei Torah or even stories of Gedolim that may not be even true?
A. Indeed, Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit”a explained that when we learn Torah, often in the Talmud and similar sources, different opinions are presented and very commonly, only one of them could be the correct and true one. Yet, our Sages teach us that the written Torah has seventy facets. (Bamidbar Rabbah 13,15)
This is similar to יין or wine which numerically adds up to seventy. This means that the halachic norm of any מצוה listed in the Torah, is based on the oral tradition. Were this not so, the written Torah could not be subject to a variety of interpretations which reveal many other concerns of Torah.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a.
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