As to your comment.
Well we should listen to our sages, because they know what's best and they preformed miracles, and we should trust and do as they say.
And also this:
La xinga wrote:Menassa wrote:I hear you, it's hard to find the balance with so many years of history between what God wants, and what our sages did to protect us/assist us in accessing what God wants.
Then there are also later prohibitions, such as not marrying more than one wife by the Ashkenazi communities.