[Avodah] Prophet - mashgiach or godol hador?

[T613K at aol.com]

RDE writes:

>>The Rambam prohibits any involvement of  heavenly inspiration in the 
halachic  process. If a prophet proclaimed  that he had poskened based  
on Divine inspiration - and not on legal  reasoning - Rambam would have 
him executed. <<
 
 
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What would the Rambam have thought of Rav Yosef Caro's  Magid?  That Magid is 
something mysterious that has long  intrigued me.  Maybe you (or others on 
Avodah) can tell me something about  who or what the Magid was and why it was an 
acceptable source of  information?  Or did the Magid not convey any halachic 
material but only  hashkafic, mystical or...what?





--Toby  Katz
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