Wednesday, 4 January 2017

rambam - No divine form for the Oral Law?


This seriously puzzles me. The Oral Law in the form of the Mishnah (and the following Gemmorah), which is the six Sdarim, is well known, and the Gemmorah itself testifies (Shabbos 31a) its division is of divine origin.
However, when Rambam wrote his Mishne Torah, he chose a completely different Seder of 14 tractates. Next came HaTurim and made it into four, with his own subdivisions.



So does it mean the Oral Law does not have a fixed divine structure as the written Torah?




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