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<DIV>RDE writes:<FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial
color=#000000 size=2><BR><BR>>>The Rambam prohibits any involvement of
heavenly inspiration in the <BR>halachic process. If a prophet proclaimed
that he had poskened based <BR>on Divine inspiration - and not on legal
reasoning - Rambam would have <BR>him executed. <<</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>What would the Rambam have thought of Rav Yosef Caro's
Magid? That Magid is something mysterious that has long
intrigued me. Maybe you (or others on Avodah) can tell me something about
who or what the Magid was and why it was an acceptable source of
information? Or did the Magid not convey any halachic material but only
hashkafic, mystical or...what?<BR><BR></DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby
Katz<BR>=============</B></FONT></DIV></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>