[Avodah] Was Lavan daft, dense or what?

[Arie Folger]

RZS wrote:
> Should
> this experience strengthen my belief that They Are Among Us and convince
> me even further that all UFO reports are probably true, or should it make
> me believe that there is really only one UFO, and most reports are false?

The real issue here is the nature of Lavan's revelation. Suppose you have seen 
glimpses of UFOs for years, yet, only once, when meeting that one real UFO, 
do you understand what it means to be with them (let's say you get to visit 
the spaceship). Then, you realize that UFOs function differently from what 
you imagined, and realize that the previous sightings were just mistakes. You 
also realize that perhaps a UFO is so large, that it leaves no place for any 
other UFO in the area, hence you could conclude that the others weren't real 
UFO sightings, but pure nonsense.

The question, IOW, is whether Lavan's revelation was a "mere" communication, 
or as overwhelming *individually* as Ma'amad Har Sinai was on the 
*collective* scale?

To RDE I also want to add that while Rachel may have intended to steal the 
teraphim so that Ya'aqov could become paterfamilias, had Lavan's revelation 
been sufficiently convincing (meaning, had Lavan been open to becoming 
convinced), the teraphim would have lost their symbolic value.

KT,
-- 
Arie Folger
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