[Avodah] (Neviim & Possible Mistakes); Akeidah & Yizchak

[David Riceman]

RYZ:
> Since the Kavana of this Nvuoh was to show that "Yurei E-lokim Atoh" 
> it was neccessery for Avrohom Avinu to think that he is going to 
> [sacrifice] his son, and that could only be done by actually 
> "ha'aleihu" with the full intent of "shachteihu", from that 
> perspective the Pisron he got was the correct one, and he acted on it 
> perfectly (which is the purpose of Nvuoh).
This Nietzschian definition of truth leads to the interesting conjecture 
that God can lie to a prophet.  This turns out to be a machloket 
rishonim.  See Melachim aleph 22:19-23, Radak (who says no) and Ralbag 
(who says yes) ad. loc.  See also Yalkut Simoni ad. loc. (citing 
Sanhedrin 102b), though I'm not sure what it means, and see Maharsha 
s.v. "mai ruah" and Etz Yosef s.v. "Shene'emar" citing Torat Hayyim 
(printed in Ein Ya'akov).

What bothers me about this is that we're trying to parse the Rambam's 
opinion, and according to the Rambam the mechanism of nevuah is 
accessing the Active Intellect, whose knowledge of truth is decidedly 
not Nietzschian.  See MN II:36 and (coming full circle) H. Yesodei 
HaTorah 7:1.

David Riceman