Cytowanie Komentarza do Psalmów 19:4

So it was with the early generations¹⁴The term “Rishonim” here means the earlier generations. – they plowed, sowed, harvested and produced fruit. If they attempted to communicate what was in their spirit, [all of their knowledge], they would have perished due to the time and effort [required for the task]. Therefore, the “masters of collections” were required to produce an abridged form of the six Orders of the Talmud, so that the laws would not become lost due to the extent of the text. What did they do? They wrote in an extremely terse manner, yet [they were able] to incorporate many matters in few words. For [the “masters of collections” intended to communicate much even though they] “have no speech or words,”¹⁵This phrase is from Psalms 19:4, where it states that although the heavens do not utter any words, their message is discerned by human beings. The Netziv is also explaining why “words” is not written with the “masters of collections” as it was with the “wise” in Eccl. 12:11. and though statements may be lacking [in their texts]. The following generations that [wished] to consume and benefit greatly from their knowledge, of blessed memory, varied according to their capabilities. The Rambam (and his equals), whose intellect was great, did not need to toil greatly to derive inferences from the nuances of the words of our sages; he would just apply his mind to the vast sea of knowledge and could thus decisively derive their opinion. Similarly, Rabbenu Tam, as I stated in Part One of Kadmas Ha’amek, chapter 15, derived a law¹⁶Rabbenu Tam derived a law that permits identifying a corpse more than three days after death. and a fundamental halachic principle¹⁷Rabbenu Tam derived from the Bahag that using a sign for identification in various halachic matters is of rabbinic origin. from a nuance in the language of the Bahag.