Reply To: I Guess I’m Pulling for the “Chabad Media” Now?

“I’m not going to argue with you regarding what you see in the Torah. The Christians also “see” corporeality of their gods in the Torah.
To say that God had a guf before the universe was created is so incredibly dumb”

Just so that everyone is clear, she’s talking about the Raavad here and those whom he considered to be on a higher level than the Rambam.

Phil, I am humbled and honored to be in the presence of someone on such a high madreiga that she feels confident talking that way about major rishonim.

“The Raavid says such a person is not a min. That does not mean her proofs from the Psukim are not compelling.”

Assuming you’re being dan l’chaf zechus in earnest and not sarcastically like I was above, you realize that nobody is actually arguing Hashem has a body here, right? She’s trying to argue that it is explicitly stated in pasukim (she’s still struggling with the meaning of the word “explicit”), and that anyone who cannot see that is believing in something “dumb.” Her words not mine.

“I think what Philosopher did was to trade on the (by now universally) accepted position that Psukim ascribing hagshama to the Borei should not be taken literally”

No, that’s what we’re saying she’s doing. What she claims to be doing is re-deriving Judaism’s perception of Hashem from scratch, and just happens to be arriving at the correct conclusion with no help from Chazal or rishonim because it’s just so obvious to someone as genius as her.