[Avodah] What would a Torah government look like

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 03:41:19PM -0500, Richard Wolpoe wrote:
: In parahsa Shoftim the idea of a Naiv is not about people with nevu'ah it's
: a specific civic office -sort of ombudsman.  So even if Moshe rabbeinu
: somehow was Melech he STILL might have an official NAVI question his
: behavior if it were out-of-line. And not justt Nassn but Gad too.

You're sort of making my point.

The word "navi" is used for someone with nevu'ah when chazal discuss
how many nevi'im and benei nevi'im were alive in Eliyahu's day. It was
in that sense that I was talking about David being the greater navi.

Yes, a melekh couldn 't be a navi in the sense you took it -- that was
exactly what I was trying to say. Even though David was a more capable
prophet than Nasan, he couldn't be both.

Gut Voch!
-Micha

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