Ancient Manuscripts Proved This Torah Giant Right - Rabbi Shlomo Horwitz

[music] You wouldn't believe what I learned about paras. At the end [music] of the para, the Torah gives us the mitzvah of it says, "You shall rejoice [music] on your festival." Then the Torah says, "Who's included in that? You, your son, your daughter, your servant, [music] your maidervant. who's missing. Doesn't say [music] anything about grandchildren and it doesn't say your wife. But listen to [music] how the Rambam codifies this mitzvah. It's into [music] and he says a person has to be happy of good hearty who [music] is he, his children, his [music] wife and his grandchildren. Grandchildren. Where did the Rambam get that from? The Torah never mentions grandchildren. This question troubled my father's beloved Rebi, Rabbi Yakov Kamki [music] Zatal. He said the Torah never mentions grandchildren. He theorized that maybe the Rambam is referring to the unfortunate case where a grandfather had a son who had his own kids and then the son passes away and now the grandfather has [music] to be Mame Benov his grandchildren. But Ravakov said that's not the Rambam style. He does not codify halaka based on an unusual case where the gammorra and [music] the Torah don't mention it. So Ravakov takes a bold step. He said this Rambam as formulated simply cannot be correct. The Rambam never wrote Vanov. He theorized. Rather it must be [music] a mistake. Raviakov suggests that the original text must have been not [music] van his grandchildren but u veso the members of his household [music] which fits the puss perfectly because after children it says servants and others who are dependent on him that must be beneso [music] his household and ravyakov says the printer must have made a [music] mistake and changed beneso to vanet vanav It's an [music] astonishing piece of intuition and Rabyakov is going against centuries of published [music] Rambams that say squarely vanov. But listen to what happened [music] in more recent years. Ravsi Franco published his monumental edition of the Rambam comparing manuscripts [music] from around the world. Oxford, St. Petersburg, Moscow, who knows where. The final most authoritative [music] text reads exactly as Ravakov had proposed neso his household. Rabyakov [music] relying solely on his deep understanding of the Rambam [music] style and the logic of the halos that he brings had independently arrived at the correct text. His grandson, Rabbi Nustat, later showed him the frankle edition of the Rambam. And Ravakov was overjoyed to see that the authoritative version of the Ramba matched [music] exactly what he had reasoned out on his own. This should be his for Sarah Shifra Esther Yehudas for Rafuas.