[Avodah] Did Tziporah say Lashon Hara?

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 04:47:25PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
> : David Riceman wrote:
> : >See Rashi Shemoth 4:10 s.v. "gam mitmol", Rambam H. Yesodei HaTorah 7:1.
> 
> : Huh?  What, in either source, indicates that one can refuse to be a navi?
> 
> It is implied that if one doesn't do the prep, one would never get
> nevu'ah. That makes nevu'ah a choice.

Did the 72 candidates Moshe chose all do a lengthy course of prep for
nevu'ah, between being chosen and going out?  The Rambam seems to say
that this is what every person needs to do to complete himself, and
one who has done so may or may not experience nevu'ah.  A person could
deliberately not do the prep work, but I can't imagine that his/her
spouse could order him/her not to.  And once the person is a suitable
keli for nevu'ah, it doesn't seem to be up to him whether Hashem will
choose to speak to him.  Are we to believe that when Hashem wants to
speak to someone they can just not take the call?  Have their secretary
tell Him that they're out?  Yonah tried to run away from nevu'ah; it
didn't work.

As for the Rashi, it's not even talking about nevu'ah.  By this time
it was too late for Moshe - he was already deep in conversation with
Hashem, whether he wanted to be a navi or not.  The job he was trying
(unsuccessfully) to decline had nothing to do with nevu'ah; Moshiach
doesn't have to be a navi at all!

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