[Avodah] Avraham and Nimrod
Yitzchak Schaffer
yitzchak.schaffer at gmx.com
Fri Jul 15 06:50:32 PDT 2011
After reading the interesting post at
http://www.blogspot.com/2006/11/why-god-chose-abraham.html
I looked into the BR 38:13, which appears as 38:19 at this link:
http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=9658&st=&pgnum=300
http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=9658&st=&pgnum=301
After a shakla ve-tarya with Nimrod about the legitimacy of various
gods, N says, "Ve-yavo eloah she-atah tishtachaveh lo, ve-yatzilcha
heimenu."
My question is: does this mean, "Let whatever god you do bow down to,
save you," implying that A had not professed a particular creed, and
more like the blog's peshat; or, "Let that G-d to whom you bow down [and
are always on about] save you?"
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Yitzchak Schaffer
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