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Moshiach will be groomed in Arabia

The Maharal is explicitly referring to a well-known aggadah about the birth of Mashiach after the destruction of the Temple. In the Yerushalmi his birth was stated to be in Birat Malka of Beit Lechem ...
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Maharal on lentils

If you look at Rashi in full there he goes on to explain the connection: וְלָמָּה עֲדָשִׁים? שֶׁדּוֹמוֹת לְגַלְגַּל, שֶׁהָאֲבֵלוּת גַּלְגַּל הַחוֹזֵר בָּעוֹלָם And why lentil? Because they are ...
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18,000 worlds under the protection of Hashem!

This subject matter is explored by Rav Aryeh Kaplan in The Aryeh Kaplan Reader. If you look at the preview - he has a chapter entitled On Extraterrestial Life (p.170). Based on Rav Chasdai Crescas (in ...
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Who was the Maharal influenced by in his seforim?

Rabbi Yehoshua Hartman, in the article called "The Maharal: His Approach, His Innovations and His Position as a Teacher of Posterity", originally posted in the fall 2009 issue of "...
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The Epistemic Ramchal v. Maharal Debate - Does the Opposite of a Thing Define it?

The Ramchal and Maharal are speaking to the same point but from different perspectives. From our Human perspective, we can only perceive or understand something truly by virtue of its opposite. Being ...
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