[Avodah] Why Not: Yehoshua BEN Nun?

hankman hankman at bell.net
Fri Jun 15 11:07:59 PDT 2012


CM wrote:
> 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.

RZS responded:
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.

CS asks:
So just which “nevuah is decidedly new” and unknown or not revealed to Moshe Rabbeinu? Is it the ma’assei merkovo (but ma sheroaso shifcha al hayam ...) or the nevuas Yeshai’ahu on Gog uMogog or kibbutz Golios etc. Just what would you point to as decicedly new and unknown to MR or that adds new revelations unknown to MR the av hanevi’im? Don’t give me a generality, but point to a specific nevuah in Nach of the type of which you speak and also tell me how you know MR did not know it.

Kol tuv
Chaim Manaster
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