[Avodah] R. Akiva, Bar Kochba and Zecharya HaNovi

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:12:50AM -0400, hankman via Avodah wrote:
: R. Micha Berger wrote:
:> This doesn't really rule out miracles, but it does rule out ones that
:> leave a permanent change in the natural order. There is a line. Which is
:> how he rules out the historicity of "vegar ze'eiv im keves..." etc...
...
: Kodem cheit Adam haReshon, not just Adam was only permitted to eat plant
: life but so too was the nature of ALL animals that they too only subsisted
: from plant life -- ie., much like "vegar ze'eiv im keves..."

I doubt the Rambam, the "he" I am trying to understand in the text
you quoted, would agree with this premise about animals before the
eitz hada'as.

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:44:50AM -0400, hankman via Avodah wrote:
:> the miracle of judging by smell

: Really should be a new thread.

: When we learned this sugia recently in the daf yomi I asked the magid
: shiur that lechora this was keneged torah which requires eidim for
: most judgements. He answered that perhaps it means that one smell from
: Moshiach would be enough to get the person to be modeh al ha'emes....

I think it HAS to be be its own thread, because this too works with
assumptions the Rambam would not agree with. Odds are the Rambam
wouldn't take "demorach" literally.
See Lecham Yehudah on Hil' Melakhim 11:3, aveilable at
<http://www.hebrewbooks.org/rambam.aspx?mfid=16226&rid=15018>.

But to get back on topic to the original thread (which is why I'm posting
it here):
Notice that the BLY (R Yehudah Iyash, Levorno mid-18th cent) assumes that
such guilt-smelling would defy the Rambam's "chidush bema'aseh bereishis"
rule, and thus couldn't be literal. Even though it's a localized miracle /
revelation and not a permanent change in the natural order.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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