- Validation
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- Moshe Ben-Chaim
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- Reader: could you please outline what your qualifications
are? Particularly the ones which enable you to define what is truly,
Jewishly authentic?
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- Mesora: If you seek my approval
by others who you accept, you then need to prove that they
are accepted, and then those who accepted them need
approval,..........you see, this is endless and futile, unless you can
trace back a lineage of students all the way to Moshe.
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- Therefore, there must be rational criteria to determine that a
person is functioning in line with the Torah, divorced from another's
approval. Those criteria are that you consent that the quoted sources
are accurate, that the interpretation is in line with reason, and that
opinions are not against those of chazal. There is no other means to
validate someone as being in line with the Torah.
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- Moshe Ben-Chaim
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