[Avodah] An old Pshat and a Question About Milchig on Shavuos

[Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer]

1. The malach has no bechirah on the essential part of his shelichus. He 
is sent for this purpose (that has to do with the correlation of the 
word melech and the word malach).

2. So long as one can identify the malach as such, he need not test him 
(the Manoach and the Malach incident is instructive).

3. Most of the communication that is received by Nevi'im is via 
Malachim. Only a Navi on a very high level communicates directly with 
Hashem, and even he not on everything (as we see with Avrohom both at 
the beginning and the end of Parashas Vayeira).

KT,
YGB

Rich, Joel wrote:
> A short recap.
> R' Joel Rich asked, "Do malachim have free will to protest hkb"h's
> actions?"
> to which I replied, "Why would you think otherwise?... AFAIK, only that
> the malachs knowledge is on a much clearer level, but this doesn't
> preclude them from choosing to disobey." 
> ===========================================
>
> So lshitatcha (or OS) when a malach comes down , the recipient of
> whatever message was received has to consider the possibility that it
> was not what HKB"H wanted?  By navi we seem to have had a test, was
> there one for malachim as well?
>
> Separate issue-why did HKB"H (to either shita) create 2 pathways for
> communicating with us (malachim and neviim)?
>
> KT
> Joel Rich
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