[Avodah] Was Lavan daft, dense or ...

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, November 28, 2007 12:21 am, R Jonathan Baker wrote:
:> However, beshe'as ma'aseh, it would seem that nevu'ah is an
:> incontravertably real experience....

: Unless it's a vision.

I didn't explain myself well. The visions were "incontrovertibly real
experiences" of the Divine. No one (except a 3 yr old, like Shemu'el
haNavi's first nevu'ah) who had a nevu'ah would question that it
really was a message from the A-lmighty or experience of higher
reality. Even if his mind is forced to clothe it in mashal.

Which would be the only way to understand Avraham being willing to
kill Yitzchaq on the strength of what some rishonim (most?) would
insist had to be a vision.

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha

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