[Avodah] Echoes of Eden-non human humanoids

[Lisa Liel]

On 9/16/2011 9:11 AM, T613K at aol.com wrote:
> From: "Gershon Dubin" <gershon.dubin at juno.com>
> >> R' Micha quoted (on Areivim) the new book Echoes of Eden by Rabbi Ari
> Kahn as saying that Adam Harishon co-existed with non-human humanoids
>
> ....Rabbi Moshe Eisemann learns that this is the position of the Ramban.<<
> Gershon
> gershon.dubin at juno.com
>
> >>>>
> When were those humanoids created?  And when did they disappear from 
> the earth?

I think the idea is that human beings who were not Adam evolved along 
with the rest of the animals on Earth.  And that when Hashem created 
Adam, he was morphologically the same species, but not Adam/human in the 
sense of having free will and a higher soul.  As far as disappearing 
from the earth, some of them may have bred into Bnei Adam, and the rest 
died in the Flood.

It's possible, but I'm not entirely convinced.  And I'd like to know 
where R' Eisenmann sees the Rambam as saying this.

Lisa

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