Timeline for Sheidim: are they fact, or fiction?
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| Aug 24, 2016 at 2:17 | comment | added | mevaqesh | I don't think Rambam in PHM says anything about taking anything non0literally, he simply disagrees. Rambam along with the majority of Geonim and Rishonim did not feel that the beliefs of Chazal were generally binding, except in matters of strict halakha | |
| Oct 7, 2015 at 14:28 | comment | added | user613 | @jake Correct. The audience in mind was nevuchim (perplexed); which is in the title. They had problems believing this stuff, so the Rambam had to reconcile it for them, so they would say least believe in the Torah, if there belief wasn't strong enough to believe everything whether they understand or not. I don't think you can learn from moreh nevuchim what the Rambam held. | |
| Aug 24, 2015 at 20:54 | comment | added | mevaqesh | @jake which rishonim criticize the Rambam on this? | |
| Feb 13, 2014 at 18:41 | comment | added | Fred | @RebChaimHaQoton כללא דמילתא כל דקפיד קפדי בהדיה ודלא קפיד לא קפדי בהדיה ומיהו למיחש מיבעי | |
| Sep 2, 2011 at 11:11 | comment | added | Reb Chaim HaQoton | Careful, if you deny Sheidim they might come to attack you!!! See parsha.blogspot.com/2011/09/was-ibn-ezra-killed-by-demons.html | |
| Feb 28, 2011 at 14:42 | comment | added | jake | The Kotzker was not the only one to offer an "eilu v'eilu" approach. The Minchas Elazar offers a different approach based on a gemara in Pesachim and on the fact that the Moreh Nevuchim was written with a particular audience in mind. (What he does with the Peirush Hamishnayos reference, I don't know.) Also, it should be noted that there do exist other rishonim that criticize the Rambam for this statement. | |
| Jan 28, 2011 at 1:28 | history | answered | josh waxman | CC BY-SA 2.5 |