[Avodah] Lying to protect the simple of faith

[Daniel Israel]

Akiva Blum wrote:
> "Michael Makovi"  <mikewinddale at gmail.com> wrote (quoted):
>> Most importantly, the Gemara itself opines that Yehoshua wrote the
>> end of the Torah - surely Rambam cannot declare Chazal to be
>> heretics!
> 
> What's the question? Moshe Rabeinu couldn't have written them because
> that would have been not true.

Or he could have written them as nevuah, which is presumably what the 
corresponding man d'amar in the Gemara holds.

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Daniel M. Israel
dmi1 at cornell.edu