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

[hankman]

RMB wrote:
The Ramban asks, were Sodom et al then not destroyed, and Lot not saved?
The Abarbanel answers that the Rambam would say that the mal'akhim saved
Lot AND they were only seen bederekh nevu'ah. Nevu'ah according to the
Rambam is seeing things going on on higher planes of reality. Thus,
Avraham and Lot only saw the mal'akhim bederekh nevu'ah because they
were actually there.

CM asks:
To enlarge a bit on the question of the Ramban: How does the Rambam understand the anshei s'dom asking for the visitors. One could imagine that Lot had a mareh nevuoh, but certainly the anshei s'dom did not have a mareh nevuoh? Furthermore, what sort of mareh was it that showed Lot offering his daughters to the s'domites? So the S'domites never did these things. This was all just in the mareh? (I have not seen the Rambam or the Ramban inside.)

I would appreciate a hesber in the Rambam.

Also, trying to understand the Ramban who according to you holds that a novi could misinterpret his nevuoh. This implies, that even though Hashem wished to communicate a message to the novi, sometime he fails do communicate as He desires due to the frailties of the novi. Would this not be contrary to our understanding of Hashem the he is "kol yochol"? so the Ramban needs a hesber as well.

Kol Tuv

Chaim Manaster
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