Reply To: Techeiles 🔵❎🐌☑️🐟

“Take a look at the levush mordeachai hakdama to bava kamma”

I assume you are referring to where he says that the words of the Rishonim are like mishnayos and a closed book. No one here is claiming that every Rishonic statement is abundantly clear and easily understandable. (Just open up to any daf in shas and you’ll find a tosfos that is anything but so.) However, that does not mean that when Rishonim make pashut basic statements we have to assume that the pashtus doesn’t make sense and they really mean something alltogether different. You can reverse engineer anything to make the gemara and rishonim support it but that is not intellectually honest. The intellectually honest approach is to figure out what the rishonim say, and if you have a gadol/posek/rosh yeshiva/rabbi who says something not in accordance with them then instead of automatically assuming that the rishonim must have meant the opposite of what they said, first ask youreslf if the gadol/posek/rosh yeshiva/rabbi is familiar with the rishonim under discussion and if it’s possible that he is arguing (perhaps based on other rishonim/acharonim).