[Avodah] Prophet - mashgiach or godol hador?

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 21:47:51 EST, RnTK <T613K at aol.com> wrote:
> What would the Rambam have thought of Rav Yosef Caro's  Magid?

1- He would have thought the Mechabeir needed psychiatric help. Not
the kind of thing the Rambam would have agreed existed.

2- The Mechabeir's pesaqim are unaffected. I've even argued here in
the past that perhaps the reason why the SA is based (admittedly
loosely) on the idea of a rov between the Rambam, the Rif and the
Tuv is because he couldn't rely on his own Magid-informed knowledge
of the inyan and had to make sure he was following the sources.

>  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...

According to the Maggid Meisharim (attributed to RYC), the Mechabeir's Maggid
was the mal'akh who embodied the Mishnah. Goes together with RYC being a gilgul
of Rebbe.

The Maggid Meisharim has it that the Maggid told the Mechabeir that he would
die al qiddush H'. This is something that he aspired to, actually. (R' Aqiva
was happy to have had the opportunity too.) So we can conclude that even if
the Mechabeir didn't write MM, it was written by one of the mequbalei Tzefas
in his lifetime. Why would that line be published after RYC's death of natural
causes?

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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