[Avodah] literalism

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:06:07 -0400 (EDT)
"Micha Berger" <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

[snip]

> When speaking of nevu'ah, nevu'ah is through chazon -- metaphor is the
> stock of trade. And when giving tokhachah, which nevi'im did more than

Rambam [0] maintains that due to the superior level of Moshe's
prophecy, it was literal and not through "moshol" as were those of all
other prophets,  which clearly implies that prophetic literalism is
superior to prophetic metaphor.

[0] Yesodei Ha'torah 7:6, available on-line here:
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/i/1107.htm (para. 11 in their edition)

> SheTir'u baTov!
> -micha

Yitzhak
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