New Writings from R. Kook and Assorted Comments, part 2
New Writings from R. Kook and Assorted Comments, part 2 Marc B. Shapiro Continued from here. I must now deal with R. Joseph Ibn Caspi, who is often described as holding a view similar to what we have seen already, but more radical in that he saw it as a general principle of interpretation. I refer to the notion that the Torah incorporates all sorts of untruths because these were what people believed at the time. It is said that…