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Do is it have to mean that it was transmitted by Moshe Rabeinu at the time? Were the tilei tilei of halachos learned from the tagim
shel halachos which were expounded by R Akiva & Revealed to Moshe Rabeinu transmitted?
Shver,
Granted, it’s a possibility that Tannatic opinions were given to Moshe and NOT transmitted down. But, for all practical purposes, there is no difference between Moshe receiving them and never transmitting it and the Tannaim coming up with it on their own.
If you maintain that it was transmitted, then you have the paradoxical situation I described above (of young R. Tarphon finding his future opinion in the Mishna). If you maintain that it was not transmitted, then you can’t say the Tanna’s opinion is something he received from his rebbe, from his rebbe, from his rebbe… from Sinai.
The Wolf