[Avodah] Prophet - mashgiach or godol hador?
Daniel Israel
dmi1 at hushmail.com
Thu Dec 21 15:59:27 PST 2006
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:53:47 -0700 Daniel Eidensohn
<yadmoshe at 012.net.il> wrote:
>Ramban(Devarim 17:11): Left and Right. *...because G‑d’s spirit
is on
>those who serve in His Temple and He does not desert His pious
ones.
>G‑d always protects them from error and mistake.
I assume that the Hebrew here is "ruach hakodesh" (I don't have a
Chumash at the office) and that that is the basis for your claim
that Ramban allows involvement of ruach hakodesh in the Sanhedrin.
However, based on the next sentence, I understand this Ramban to be
speaking more of a passive hashgacha on psak, i.e., HKB"H will
prevent them from paskening incorrectly (or, depending on how you
understand eilu v'eilu, prevent them from going outside a defined
range of possible psak). I think this is different from the
immediate implication of how you phrased your claim, which to me
sounded like they could consciously "search" ruach hakodesh to find
answers.
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Daniel M. Israel
dmi1 at cornell.edu
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