tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post9101385494831944492..comments2024-03-28T21:30:33.665+02:00Comments on Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity: Teach truth through lies?Daas Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252904288544083215noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-71973299392436038102009-01-05T01:51:00.000+02:002009-01-05T01:51:00.000+02:00I'm a bit puzzled as to how the word "vort" is bei...I'm a bit puzzled as to how the word "vort" is being used here. Could someone offer a clarification?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-58292796261703763302009-01-02T18:01:00.000+02:002009-01-02T18:01:00.000+02:00See editor's comment herehttp://hirhurim.blogspot....See editor's comment here<BR/><BR/>http://hirhurim.blogspot.com/2008/12/audio-roundup-xxiii.html<BR/><BR/>kt<BR/>joel richAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-39991876677748426832009-01-02T16:15:00.000+02:002009-01-02T16:15:00.000+02:00WADR to RDE, he should have repeated such things b...WADR to RDE, he should have repeated such things besheim omro -- the Rambam said this about taking the stories of the medrash as history. (Peirush haMishnayos, in the Vilna ed of Sanhedrin, 123 amudah c; ie 123 "amud b", 2/3 or so down the 1st column.)<BR/><BR/>He defines three groups of people in their approach to medrash. The first category assume they are all literal historical truths, see them as foolish but representative of the Torah, and reject the Torah.<BR/><BR/>(The second take them all as literal historical truths, do not see them as foolish, and therefore believe foolishness. And the third see the words as they are, metaphor masking a deep truth.)<BR/><BR/>What the Rambam says about aggadic stories from Chazal definitely holds of modern tales.<BR/><BR/>-michamichahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13610506439687098313noreply@blogger.com