R' David Finch wrote:<br><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?<br><br>The Rambam (Yesodei Hatorah 7:1) writes that a Navi needs to be shalem b'gufo, which would seem to mean that he has no physical defects.
<br><br>R' Goldvicht was actually quoting a Maharal in Gevuros Hashem Hashem perek 28 who explained that Moshe was so ruchni that he couldn't speak well because speech is a chibur between the ruchni and the gashmi.
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