A personal generalization about a set of commands should not serve to
supplant the commands themselves. We should not go about nullifying
the actual text by asserting our non-textual assumptions about the
commands.
One might have had beliefs about how the Sabbath
should be, for example, but one needs to differentiate between what is
personal assumption and what is Torah. If one assumes that the laws of
the Sabbath must conform to what one has personally generalized regarding
how the Sabbath should be, then interpretation issues are likely to
arise. Such a person will have been more interested in figuring out how
to preserve their personal generalization rather than adhering to an
honest interpretation of the text. Indeed, the actual text might not
even be apparent in such a case, and one might not even allow themselves
to recognize it.
