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Radak on Genesis : Creation, Humanity, and Torah ■ 45 Radak, by contrast, in the might end up rejecting fundamental theological tenets . 21 introduction to his Genesis commentary, hints at a different concern : 22 This prohibition obtains because of the natural processes that govern the creations . Let the sophisticated reader understand for himself why this necessitates a prohibition, because we are not permitted to disclose the matter . This formulation suggests that the mere fact of these natural processes—not their difficulty—poses a danger . For if Radak, like Maimonides, was mainly concerned about the difficulty of the material posing theological dangers, why would he decline to say so outright ? Instead, our commentator seems to mean something else . Especially in a climate where more pristine rationalists, such as Ibn Tibbon, understood creation to be an entirely natural process, Radak saw danger in Indeed, he even feared spelling out his concern, because expounding nature’s ro...
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