[Avodah] Diberah Torah

[hlampel at koshernet.com]

 Re: Diberah Torah (Zvi Lampel)

I wrote:
I therefore conclude that [the rishonim understood
that] the essential meaning of the Chazal [["Dibra
Torah K'l'shom bnei adam"]]is a broad
one that includes the one used by the rishonim
[[applying it to explain anthropomorphisms, for
example]]. Rabbi
Yishmael was just applying one of its implications
[[in using it to counter R" Akiva's darshanning of
doubled terms]].

I'd like to add that another advantage to this
approach is that it treats R' Yishmael's concept not
as one that he created wholesale, but as a recognized
klall mekubal; the only machlokess was in whether the
klall that the Torah expresses itself in human
language includes not only the Torah's use of idioms
and anthropomorphisms, but even otherwise extraneous
verbiage. 

Zvi Lampel