[Avodah] Rishonim on God's Corporeality

Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer rygb at aishdas.org
Mon Jan 19 07:52:41 PST 2009


There are flaws in the article. There are no clearly decisive primary 
sources. I must have missed the Rabbeinu Yonah, but the Rabbeinu Taku is 
certainly not unambiguous.

I must note a personal peeve: To present an overview of attitudes 
towards Aggadata without presenting the Maharal and the schools of 
thought that derive from him such as Reb Tzadok, is malpractice!

KT,
YGB

Harvey Benton wrote:
> There is an Article online by R. David Sedley, bringing sources from Talmud through Rishonim on their views of Aggada.  Some Rishonim [pg. 116 of link] held to the Literal interpretations of Aggada, including R. Yosef ben Todros, and possibly R. Yonah; to not believe this they held, is to degrade the Torah. 
>   



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