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On 9/16/2011 9:11 AM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:T613K@aol.com">T613K@aol.com</a> wrote:
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color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">From: "Gershon Dubin"
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>> R' Micha quoted (on Areivim) the new book Echoes of Eden by
Rabbi Ari<br>
Kahn as saying that Adam Harishon co-existed with non-human humanoids<br>
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....Rabbi Moshe Eisemann learns that this is the position of the
Ramban.<<<br>
Gershon<br>
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<div>When were those humanoids created? And when did they disappear
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I think the idea is that human beings who were not Adam evolved along
with the rest of the animals on Earth. And that when Hashem created
Adam, he was morphologically the same species, but not Adam/human in
the sense of having free will and a higher soul. As far as
disappearing from the earth, some of them may have bred into Bnei Adam,
and the rest died in the Flood.<br>
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It's possible, but I'm not entirely convinced. And I'd like to know
where R' Eisenmann sees the Rambam as saying this.<br>
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Lisa<br>
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