[Avodah] binyamin as werewolf?

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 07:37:15PM -0800, Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org wrote:
: http://www.rationalistjudaism.com/2011/12/was-rachel-imeinu-killed-by-werewolf.html 
: opinion of a rishon

This is just silly.

And to posit that anyone not from a modern urban setting would think for
a moment that a newborn puppy wolf had the ability to bite or draw blood,
never mind kill a person.... and even us city dwellers can see the
absurdity immediately, once pointed out.

RNS himself notes the rishon could be talking poetically, but rejects
it. Mind you, this runs counter to his general approach to aggadita,
which does accept that the language of aggadita is often metaphor.

I would suggest that had RNS not have an agenda of showing how much
more we know of the world than they, and thus how much room we have to
question earlier sources on these matters, he never would have blogged
such a thing.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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