tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post7500948417702440649..comments2024-03-05T21:22:43.426-05:00Comments on parshablog: Some great Chizkunis on Vayigashjoshwaxmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03516171362038454070noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-50506928420574276142009-01-01T16:23:00.000-05:002009-01-01T16:23:00.000-05:00You are right. I was inexact in my language.There ...You are right. I was inexact in my language.<BR/><BR/>There are actually two (or more) formulations of this belief. One is about the Chachmei haTalmud. And there is a stronger, more broad version which encompasses Rishonim. (And there is an even broader version in which Daas Torah means that even rabbonim nowadays are mystically aware of all of science, such that they are able to appropriately pasken and advise.)<BR/><BR/>And there are indeed people who hold by the broader version. A prime example of this manifested a few years back when Rabbi Slifkin suggested that Tosafot were mistaken in believing that elephants could jump. (See <A HREF="http://parsha.blogspot.com/2005/11/white-elephants-cant-jump.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>.<BR/><BR/>http://parsha.blogspot.com/2005/11/white-elephants-cant-jump.html<BR/><BR/>But disproving the broader version does not disprove the narrower version, so we cannot necessarily apply the same to the Talmudic Sages. (Though there are other examples in the Talmud I believe I can point to to disprove this.)<BR/><BR/>KT,<BR/>Joshjoshwaxmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149022516101476797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-12768410220281471072009-01-01T15:29:00.000-05:002009-01-01T15:29:00.000-05:00Re: 8 Why would Chazal include Chizkuni? Chazal i...Re: 8<BR/> <BR/>Why would Chazal include Chizkuni? Chazal is normatively understood to refer to sages through chasimas haTalmud.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com