Why the BABALONIAN TALMUD says the RABBIS can overide a heavenly vioce. With The SNAKE Oven 🐍

Shalom Aleichem Chevra, welcome back! What happens when a heavenly voice directly tells the rabbis they're wrong — and they say, 'We don't care'? In this shiur we dive into one of the most dramatic and famous passages in the entire Babylonian Talmud — the story of the Snake Oven, or Tanur shel Achnai. We start with what sounds like a very technical debate: Rabbi Elazar and the other sages are going back and forth over whether a clay oven assembled from rings with sand in between counts as a real oven that can receive ritual impurity, or just a bunch of disembodied clay pieces that can't. Rabbi Elazar says it's pure. The majority of the rabbis say it's impure. Simple enough, right? Wrong. Then things get absolutely wild. Rabbi Elazar, unable to convince the other sages through argument alone, starts calling on miraculous signs to prove his position. A carob tree uproots itself and walks hundreds of feet. A river reverses direction. The walls of the study hall begin to cave in — until Rabbi Yehoshua rebukes them for getting involved in a Torah debate. And then, the move that brings the whole thing to a head: a Heavenly Voice, a Bat Kol, rings out and declares that the law follows