“Exactly. Looking for black and white is a symptom of being very literal minded.”
I don’t follow. I am saying it is NOT literal. Isn’t that the exact opposite of being “literal minded”
“To you there are two choices, either literal in the fullest sense of the way we do practice it today or non-literal, and it is code words to be deciphered like a dream and has no relation to what it says.”
Literal is a word it has a definition. “taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory.” (Google)
It’s opposite isn’t “falsehood” the opposite is figurative. When I say I have butterflies in my stomach it isn’t literal. But that doesn’t mean I’m lying. I just mean it in a different way than the literal words mean.
“Otherwise, we wouldn’t have these discussions by the Ramban down about why Yakov married two sisters”.
Dy addressed this above.
“means that although the Maamar Chazal means exactly what it says”
It doesn’t. Nor can it.
“And yet, they still didn’t keep Teffilin the way we do. ”
Great so we agree!
“Yes, they literally kept the Mitzvos, but not all of them were practiced the way it was spelled out later on.”
You JUST said they didn’t practice refilling the way we do.
So
If they figured out Teffilin that means they knew the reason for it. They can then choose to fulfill this idea in whatever way made sense in those times.”
Sure! So they fulfilled it in a non literal way.
“Teffilin d’Morei Alma are very real, ”
Where did I say otherwise? Again the opposite if literal isn’t fake.
“it doesn’t just mean Chazal found a cute way to describe the fact that Hashem loves us”
Why bot?
If you can’t wrap your head around this it’s because you are too literal-minded”
Are you unclear as to what literal means?