DY: I could find you a T’shuva where R’ Moshe was Mattir shaving. But that’s a separate issue anyway. We can know truths like that because we can ask his Talmidim. Unfortunately, since the time of Chazal we have lost the unbroken chain to Sinai. (In the sense that every word was passed on orally; obviously we can trace from Rebbe to Talmid all the way back to MRA”H, but what a Rebbe taught a Talmid drastically changed after Chasimas HaGemara, which is my point.) Our chain goes from Chazal straight to us, with the Rishonim and Achronim being our ability to understand the words of Chazal. That is my point. So if someone claims a “Mesorah” with no Shemetz of a hint in Chazal or in those explaining Chazal, then how can they claim that “Mesorah” goes back to Sinai?
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