Originally published 6/4/10, 8:00 pm.
«vayikra rabba 22:1: what a senior student will in the future say before his teacher, they were all(sic) said to Moses at Sinai. »
Simple Meaning
"...Were all enabled to be said by given Moshe the torah at Sinai"
Permit me to explain these three M'shalim and one Nimshal
1. Computer Languges
When the authors of EG COBOL created a new language with rules of syntax, logic, command structure etc.
Then any subsequent program in that language resulted from that creation, and was inherent [meaning inherently possible] to program all future algorithms as a result of the original formulation.
2. DNA
When Johnny "Appleseed" walked around America tossing around apple seeds, he planted the trees that would one day create most future apple trees throughout the continent.
3. Chess
Given the rules and a chessboard and chess pieces, every future game is made possible, and potentiated, and foreseeable.
Nimshal:
When Hashem gave the Torah, even the havvayot of Abbaye and Rava were foreseen. That is the Aggadah. [And from Hashem's timeless perspective it is SO]
My spin is to change "fore-seen" to "foresee-able" Thus the Torah was given not only as laws but as instruction. Jurisprudence and rules of how to apply laws and to make Drashot were also given. Thus any future drash was given at Sinai means that both the chomer and the tzurh for all future investigations were enabled at Mattan Torah, via the very DNA inherent therein. And this is Hazal's point.
Or perhaps there is indeed another point! Just don't take it too literally and thereby miss every point!
«vayikra rabba 22:1: what a senior student will in the future say before his teacher, they were all(sic) said to Moses at Sinai. »
Simple Meaning
"...Were all enabled to be said by given Moshe the torah at Sinai"
Permit me to explain these three M'shalim and one Nimshal
1. Computer Languges
When the authors of EG COBOL created a new language with rules of syntax, logic, command structure etc.
Then any subsequent program in that language resulted from that creation, and was inherent [meaning inherently possible] to program all future algorithms as a result of the original formulation.
2. DNA
When Johnny "Appleseed" walked around America tossing around apple seeds, he planted the trees that would one day create most future apple trees throughout the continent.
3. Chess
Given the rules and a chessboard and chess pieces, every future game is made possible, and potentiated, and foreseeable.
Nimshal:
When Hashem gave the Torah, even the havvayot of Abbaye and Rava were foreseen. That is the Aggadah. [And from Hashem's timeless perspective it is SO]
My spin is to change "fore-seen" to "foresee-able" Thus the Torah was given not only as laws but as instruction. Jurisprudence and rules of how to apply laws and to make Drashot were also given. Thus any future drash was given at Sinai means that both the chomer and the tzurh for all future investigations were enabled at Mattan Torah, via the very DNA inherent therein. And this is Hazal's point.
Or perhaps there is indeed another point! Just don't take it too literally and thereby miss every point!
KT,
RRW
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