Reply To: Ministering Angels and Bigdei Kehuna

Haleivi:

You are reiterating what has been said earlier, namely that angels don’t require time to do things. I responded to this that Rashi doesn’t say that angels are supernatural beings who don’t operate within the conceptual realm of time whereas human beings cwho operate in a physical realm governed by the constraints of time cannot physically have the begadim off immediately; he says that angels are zarizim to take the begadim off right away whereas humans are not. I already agreed that this could be what Rashi meant, but that it is a bit of an odd way to say it. Hence I am still looking for a better pshat.