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[Zev Sero]

On 6/07/2011 1:54 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> However, you repeat what I feel is the wrong half of the Rambam's phrase,
> yes it's "sheKOL hanimna'os", but the Rambam continues "mechuyavei
> hametzi'us". What are the "necessities of existence" if not the laws of
> nature? He doesn't speak of paradoxes and laws of logic...

How do you know that's not what he means?

A more reasonable reading of the Rambam is that he means those stories
that even someone who has no problem with miracles can't accept, e.g.
the stories of Rabba bar bar Chana.  The problem with those stories is
not that they involve miracles, but precisely that they purport to
describe natural phenomena that can't possibly exist.  That, and the
style of the stories themselves, indicate that we're supposed to take
them as tall stories that hide a deeper meaning.

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