[Avodah] How the Torah portrays our great men

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 01:05:28PM +0200, Eli Turkel wrote:
> : Interestingly [R Dr] Shnayer Leiman has a fascinating article in
> : Tradition (many years ago) in which he discusses a Tifereth Yisrael
> : that brings a "story" that Moshe Rabbenu : found a magic mirror that
> : showed one's inner personality. This showed that Moshe was
> : intrinsically evil and reached his heights by overcoming his
> : natutal tendencies.

> I recall learning a similar maamar chazal, in which it was a phrenologist
> (someone who assesses the character of a person from their head shape
> and bumps) who said that MRAH was born to be a highway robber.

A maamar chazal that mentions phrenology?  Isn't that strictly a 19th-
century "science"?

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