sophistical

adjective

«sophistical» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: Here Kalisch uses it to criticise the older commentaries on Sefer Yetzirah as twisting verses of Scripture with false reasoning.

Using clever but false arguments that seem true but are not. tree →

All the other commentaries mentioned above, together with all quotations of other expounders of the same book, contain nothing but a medley of arbitrary, mystical explanations and sophistical distortions of scriptural verses, astrological notions, oriental (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →

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