Not sure how coherent these questions will be, as they are after a quick, first read through. I had a lot more thoughts to bring up as I read through, but after the fact this is what stuck with me:
Why does certain knowledge of a principle (or Truth, or truth) need to be attainable to everyone in order to have a place in Judaism? Maimonides was certainly an elitist, in the purest sense, and may have believed himself to be a kind of prophet (though he never says so explicitly). My first question, as I said above, is why an elitist (only attainable for the few) ultimate Truth (or rather, certainty about that truth) would necessarily be problematic for Judaism? Second, why would it be problematic within Rambam's own thinking?
An lj-cut is a live-journal specific HTML tag... it's a form of web encoding.
Basically, you type < lj-cut > (except without the spaces between the text and brackets, then your post, and when you'r done witht he post you type < /lj-cut > (again, without the spaces).
This set of tags hides all of the text you place between the tags under a link, that points toward your post in its entirety.
An LJ-CUT is primarily a curtesy to other LiveJournalers. Anytime your post is longer than umpteen billion pages, or you're posting a ton of pics. It's generally a good idea to LJ-Cut.
I hope that's clear, sometimes I end up leaving people with more questions as opposed to less.
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Why does certain knowledge of a principle (or Truth, or truth) need to be attainable to everyone in order to have a place in Judaism? Maimonides was certainly an elitist, in the purest sense, and may have believed himself to be a kind of prophet (though he never says so explicitly). My first question, as I said above, is why an elitist (only attainable for the few) ultimate Truth (or rather, certainty about that truth) would necessarily be problematic for Judaism? Second, why would it be problematic within Rambam's own thinking?
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Basically, you type < lj-cut > (except without the spaces between the text and brackets, then your post, and when you'r done witht he post you type < /lj-cut > (again, without the spaces).
This set of tags hides all of the text you place between the tags under a link, that points toward your post in its entirety.
An LJ-CUT is primarily a curtesy to other LiveJournalers. Anytime your post is longer than umpteen billion pages, or you're posting a ton of pics. It's generally a good idea to LJ-Cut.
I hope that's clear, sometimes I end up leaving people with more questions as opposed to less.
.::Charles::.
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