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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>RRW wrote:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>3. It is assur to Test a Navi too much [Hinuch Parahs Vo'eschanan]
So<BR> once a Navi is established who says he cannot err?</DIV>
<DIV>CM responds:</DIV>
<DIV>I do not think it is mistavr that the novi must be infallible when
becomming a novi but thereafter can err. It's about the nature of nevuoh and
that will not change whether the novi is muchzok or not.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>RRW wrote:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> 7. What about the shtuyos embedded in Yosef's dreams? Didn't
even<BR> legitimate dreamers have extraneous material?</DIV>
<DIV>CM responds:</DIV>
<DIV>I do not think that Yosef or any of the shevatim were considered neviim.
(although I once saw, don't recall from who, that when Yaakov scolded Yosef
for telling his dreams to the brothers that the reason </DIV>
<DIV>Yosef did so was because he thought it would be kovesh nevuoh). What
shtuyos are you talking about. They thought Yosef was talking about his mother,
but Rochel was dead, so this could not come to pass. They did not realize
that it meant Bilah who raised him.</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>RRW wrote:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>8. If every navi is infallible then how is Moshe superior to
brother<BR> Aharon and siter Miriam? </DIV>
<DIV>CM responds:</DIV>
<DIV>I responded to this in a previous posting.As I said then, (one of) the
differences is in the clarity and depth of the vision. not the correctness of
what they took away from the nevuoh, (Moshe more the others less).</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>RRW wrote:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>But how is that shayach when EVERY navi bats one thousand!?</DIV>
<DIV>CM responds:</DIV>
<DIV>The only column the novi always bats "one thousand" is for lack of error in
the nevuoh, but not for depth and clarity of the vision. Some neviim saw with
greater clarity others less so, but none of them were wrong in their vision.
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<DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Finally, I am not sure on what basis you want to
differentiate between "private (telling only one person?) and public nevuoh." I
do not know of any such difference, but if you have a mekor for this I will
stand corrected. See Rambam Yesodei HaTorah 7:7 where he speaks of nevuoh
to the novi himself (not to tell anyone) or of a nevuoh to tell
others, but notes no difference between a "private" nevuoh to tell a yochid and
one to tell to a rabim. See also 10:3 in the Rabam.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kol Tuv</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Chaim Manaster</FONT></DIV>
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