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Devarim 30: No Backsees
The Talmud in Bava Metzia 59b discusses a dispute between Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yehoshua regarding the ritual purity of a stove. Rabbi Eliezer called upon miracles to prove his position, including a heavenly voice. Rabbi Yehoshua stood and declared:
“It is not in the heavens!” (verse 12).
לֹא בַשָּׁמַיִם הִוא
(Deuteronomy 30:12)
God had given the Torah to the people, and by doing so transferred authority to human interpretation. Halacha follows the majority.
There is another way to understand this verse. After forty years of wandering, Moshe—who spoke face to face with God—is not entering…
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