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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dfinch847@aol.com">dfinch847@aol.com</a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Marty Bluke writes:
"How could the adon haneviim stutter? The Rambam (Mamrim 7:2) writes
that a Navi has to be shalem b'gufu, if Moshe had a phsyical defect he
should have been unable to become a Navi at all."
I had always read Rambam as saying that a navi needs moral and
spiritual perfection. Did Rambam actually say that a navi cannot have a
physical defect?
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<p class="quote"><b><span style="">Rashbam</span></b><a style=""
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style="">(Shemos
4:10):</span></b><span style=""> It is inconceivable that a prophet who
spoke with G‑d face to
face and received the Torah from Him should have a speech impediment.
Such an
assertion is not found in the words of the Tanayim and Amoraim. We
don’t
concern ourselves with what is written in books outside the canon [The
assertion is found in Shemos Rabbah 1:26 that Moshe stuttered]. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family: FrankRuehl;" lang="HE"> <b>רשב"ם (שמות ד:י)</b>
"וכי
אפשר נביא אשר ידעו השם פנים אל פנים וקיבל תורה מידו לידו היה מגמגם
בלשונו. ואין
דבר זה בדברי התנאים והאמוראים, ואין לחוש לספרים החיצונים. (אבל זה נמצא
בשמות
רבה (א:כו).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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