[Avodah] Why Not: Yehoshua BEN Nun?

[Zev Sero]

On 13/06/2012 12:55 PM, hankman wrote:
> I am not much of a mequbal so it is safe to say I have never heard of this idea of “progressive revelation.” If I intuit the meaning correctly then I have a major problem with this concept. Based on the hashkafot I was taught, this idea would be heretical grade A. Torah was revealed to man but once at Sinai. At any later time any claim for a new or additional revelation is false and any person making such a claim is per force, even if he is a known navi,  a navi sheker and to be punished as such. This seems to me to be squarely at odds with the idea of progressive revelation.  Whereas “Torah lo bashomayim hi” fits neatly with the hashkofot as I was taught, progressive revelation does not. What am I missing here?

Then what is nevuah?  "Vezot Hatorah" means no new *halachot* can
be given.  But secrets of Torah can be revealed.   After all, "Torah
chadasha me'iti tetzei".

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                  may be. The stocks of them are not fixed but rather
		 are expanding through human ingenuity."
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