[Avodah] Rav Keller's JO article on evolution

[Zev Sero]

Zvi Lampel wrote, quoting R Saadia Gaon:
 
> In the conventional/primary sense, Hashem's saying that when
> giving maaser "you shall test me through this" (Devarim 6:16)
> contradicts the pesukim prohibiting testing Hashem.

"Uvchanuni na bazot" is not Devarim 6:16, it's Malachi 3:10.
Devarim 6:16 is "lo tenasun et Hashem".

RSG seems to say that the contradiction must be resolved by
reinterpreting the pasuk in Malachi, so that it doesn't really
allow testing Hashem.  I was taught the exact opposite, that
this is an exception to the rule, and one is allowed to test
Hashem in this particular case.  

Both Malachi and his audience were familiar with the pasuk in
Devarim, as are we, and nevertheless Hashem told him to call
on his audience to test Him, and this was written ledorot,
so the contradiction is resolved in favour of the latter.
Although it's only "divrei kabbalah", and can't contradict
"divrei torah", we find a similar exception in the Torah itself,
in parshat Behar, where Hashem promises that if we keep shemita
and yovel, He will make the harvest of the 49th year last for
3 years instead of one.



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