<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 24, 2008 2:34 PM, Micha Berger <<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
(I think this thread belongs here, not Areivim. Reposting accordingly.<br>Feel free to do the same, add replies, etc...)<br><br>The Torah describes a system of checks and balances between three<br>branches of gov't.<br>
<br>The judicial branch, comprised of Beis Din haGadol and the rabbinate.<br>The kehunah, providing moral, educational and spiritual leadership.<br>The executive branch which had its own internal checks and balances<br>between the melekh and his court navi.<br>
<br>The melukhah, nevu'ah and kehunah each had to be distinct people.<br>Either could (and often did) serve on beis din. And so, we speak of<br>Shlomo ubeis dino. And yet, David listened to Nasan, even though it's<br>
hard to believe that meant Nasan was the greater navi.<br><br></blockquote><div><br>SheTir'u baTov!<br>-micha<br><br><br><br>I agree with your concept of separation of powers but who says David was a navi?<br>Why would he be a GREATETR Navi than Nassan. <br>
Writing Kessuvim is in no way a raya that he was a navi at all<br>And FWIWavid was rebuked by Gad as well as by Nassam <br><br><br>In parahsa Shoftim the idea of a Naiv is not about people with nevu'ah it's a specific civic office -sort of ombudsman. So even if Moshe rabbeinu somehow was Melech he STILL might have an official NAVI question his behavior if it were out-of-line. And not justt Nassn but Gad too.</div>
</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com</a><br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>