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Taku is often cited as contradicting Maimonides’ Third Principle of Faith for insisting that God can be corporeally manifest and that to maintain otherwise is heretical. Foreign Taku such a denial would be an infringement on God’s omnipotence and that accordingly all anthropomorphic allusions to God in the Tanach are to be taken literally. "Taku insists on the literal acceptance of the prophets" descriptions of their visions as well as the anthropomorphic references to God in talmudic-midrashic literature.
He does not do so because of his belief in the literal veracity of these descriptions.
He only insists that they represent the maximum that can be conveyed concerning God"s essence and appearance, and that any further inquiry cannot lead to valid conclusions. God chose to reveal to us in the scriptures whatever is found in them: man should be satisfied with that, and ask no more questions.
lieutenant is not that Rabbi Moses Taku believed in an anthropomorphic God. Most probably, he did not.".