[Avodah] lo dmus haguff.....

[David Riceman]

Harvey Benton wrote:
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> hb: from chabad.org/library: yehoshua chapter 5:13. And it was when 
> Joshua was in Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and saw, and, 
> behold, a man was standing opposite him with his sword drawn in his 
> hand; and Joshua went to him, and said to him, Are you for us, or for 
> our adversaries? 14. And he said, No, but I am the the captain of the 
> host of the Lord; ....snip....15. And the captain of the Lord's host 
> said to Joshua, Remove your shoe from your foot; for the place upon 
> which you stand is holy. And Joshua did so.   (end reference).
> hb:Yehoshua according to pshat was standing and had to take off his 
> shoes.... can a person stand while dreaming or while having a 
> prophetic vision acc. to the rambam???....doesn't the rambam say that 
> all novi's except 4 moshe rabeinu lose control of their bodies 
> (shaking, convulsing, etc??) (see also megilla 3b where it clearly 
> states that it was a malach that appeared to yehoshua, and gave 
> yehoshua the 2 reasons that he was there….)
>
Joshua, in his vision, saw himself standing.  The same principle applies 
in the other cases.  See Ibn Ezra Hoshea 1:1 (it's pretty long; you can 
get the essence by starting in the paragraph beginning "n'um Avraham 
hamehaber ..."

David Riceman
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