tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post4596839665821970245..comments2024-03-05T21:22:43.426-05:00Comments on parshablog: Was Ibn Ezra killed by demons?joshwaxmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03516171362038454070noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-43097812034407267112011-09-01T19:37:30.611-04:002011-09-01T19:37:30.611-04:00http://www.thelakewoodscoop.com/news/2011/09/while...http://www.thelakewoodscoop.com/news/2011/09/while-learning-about-grasshoppers-at-daf-yomi-shiur-a-grasshopper-lands-on-gemarah.html#more-46050Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-36200452143782209082011-09-01T12:32:48.197-04:002011-09-01T12:32:48.197-04:00http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=21063...http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=21063&st=&pgnum=102<br /><br />Of course it's an urban legend. Taku is saying that this is something he heard from English Jews. Since he lived 100 years after Ibn Ezra this is as good a source as any that you first here of 100 years after the fact (fully apart for the information contained therein, black dogs, etc.)<br /><br />By the way, this is an interesting source because it also unintentionally adds an angle that we otherwise would not have heard: that Ibn Ezra died in England. At least according to some English Jews a hundred years after he died. There are two other candidates for places he died, in Spain or EY. So this is a third. <br /><br />Black dogs seem to have been associated with demons in medieval Europe.<br /><br />In any case, your point is pretty much spot on. Many "things" come to us via such arbitrary pronouncements. I mean, what if someone says that the Baal Shem Tov was chozer and became a rationalist at the end of his life? That's the mesorah from tzadikim. How do I know? I found a document which says so. I can't show it to you though.S.http://onthemainline.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com