[Avodah] No Image at Choreiv?
Arie Folger
afolger at aishdas.org
Wed Jul 20 22:58:48 PDT 2011
RMB wrote:
> HOWEVER.... while I agree with the Rambam that Hashem has no guf
> ugevi'ah, how can we say that noone saw a picture of one at Choreiv?
> Shemos 24:10, speaking of Moshe, Aharon, Nadav, Avihu, and the 70
> zeqeinim, "Vayir'u es E-lokei Yisrael, vesachas Raglav kemaaseih livnas
> hasapir..."
I'd like to suggest, as per Ramban, that they saw the maaseh merqava,
not G"d. Veyecheyu would then mean they saw the traces of His
presence, not Himself.
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