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Rabbi Nissim of Marseilles and His Idiosyncratic View of Revelation
For this 14th-century rabbi, the Torah’s laws were only quasi-divine.
Taking a position that many of his Jewish peers would have considered heretical, the 14th-century theologian Nissim of Marseilles maintained that the specific details of biblical law were in fact created by Moses alone, based on the use of his own reason; only the general outline was of literally divine origin. Nissim’s source was an ancient midrashic commentary on the construction of the tabernacle, described in painstaking detail in the second half of the book of Exodus that concludes with this week’s Torah reading. David Frankel writes:
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Rabbi Nissim of Marseilles and His Idiosyncratic View of Revelation
For this 14th-century rabbi, the Torah’s laws were only quasi-divine.