Reply To: Ki Siso – Torah Shebaal Peh, The Oral Torah Law

The Rabbenu Bachaya explains also the expression of the gemora חסורי מחסרי והכי קתני something is missing and this is the way it should be learned . Rebbi, when he composed the mishna left certain things out on purpose because he felt that it was understood without it and only what was needed for the utmost understanding was allowed to be written down. The gemora came about because the generations became weaker and more explanations were necessary and so on from one generation to another. Rav Nassan Adler ztz’l did not publish a sefer as he had a photographic memory and a dot in the margin was sufficient for him to remember things. The Ben Ish Chai interprets the above expression in a joking fashion. A person usually has a job and has no time to learn but the one who relies on others to fulfil his needs will be able to learn, so if he is missing money, he will learn.