[Avodah] Why Not: Yehoshua BEN Nun?

[Zev Sero]

On 15/06/2012 11:35 AM, hankman wrote:
> But the reference time frame is almost always “l’osid lavo” or “yemos hamoshiach” etc. but not bezmaneinu. Our discussion was the nekudos as we know them today. Also we could call that the hilchos pronounciation for our time, so this IS “halachot.”

The nekudot merely document the existing pronunciation; they don't
dictate it.  So they're not halachot.  But in any case the whole
concept of "progressive relevation" is irrelevant, because for the
answer we're discussing to work the nekudot had to be known to Moshe
Rabbenu.  Which used to be universally believed, but isn't much any more.


> Finally, “nevuah” is firmly rooted in commands of the Torah, and is
> not to be seen as an attempt to add HV”S to the Torah. It is a command
> to believe and obey the commands of a navi – not to create a Torah
> chadasha. They can only be of a temporary nature and not a new mitzvo
> ledoros (unless of course it is as takonos) and valid even if they
> temporarily countermand an express command of the Torah – but clearly
> based on the Torah as given miSinai.

That is all in the realm of halacha.  But most nevuah has nothing to do
with halacha.  And most nevuah is decidedly new, and it is Torah. So
there's nothing radical in the idea of "progressive revelation".  All
"vezot hatorah" means is that new revelations can't directly change the
halacha.


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