[Avodah] Looking for sources about Chazal's Ruach Hakodesh

[Aaron Miller]

Micha,
You think those people are rare?!  I would disagree, what do you guys think?

Aaron

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 09:56:29AM -0800, Gershon Seif wrote:
> : Someone who accepts the authority of chazal, the Geonim and Rishonim, but
> looks at all esoteric statements of even chazal as allegory, and uses the
> Mahartz Chajes as his reason for this, is not interested in hearing from the
> zohar as an expert about anything. This person wants sources from the
> halachic tradition itself stating that past the times of Nevuah, and Chagai,
> Zecharia and Malachi, Ruach haKodesh was imbued in chazal. Telling them
> about the experts of esoteric Torah is almost laughable to them. It is
> circular reasoning. They agree to be bound to Nevuah. That is the basis of
> the authority of the the Torah and halacha. But beyond that, they wonder and
> want proof.
>
> In practice, such people are rare among O. You would be talking about
> someone who doesn't alternate hands three times when washing neigl vasr,
> which he doesn't necessarily wash until right before Shacharis. Washing
> before haMotzi would be equally vanilla.
>
> Tir'u baTov!
> -Micha
>
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