[Avodah] Navi and Physical Defects

[Ari Shapiro]

R' David Finch wrote:
<I had always read Rambam as saying that a navi needs moral and spiritual
perfection. Did Rambam actually say that a navi cannot have a physical
defect?

The Rambam (Yesodei Hatorah 7:1) writes that a Navi needs to be shalem
b'gufo, which would seem to mean that he has no physical defects.

R'  Goldvicht was actually quoting a Maharal in Gevuros Hashem Hashem perek
28 who explained that Moshe was so ruchni that he couldn't speak well
because speech is a chibur between the ruchni and the gashmi.
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