To clarify: I didn’t meant to say it was a problem in of itself, i said it is a problem when it is treated as a story devoid of its real meaning. My problem isn’t in believing in the concept of a golem or techiyas hameisim or a sheid, I just want to know and understand what value stories about these very esoteric concepts brings to me. I never understood how people could produce comic strips on the Golem of Prague or Shlomo Hamelech and Ashmadia, which were around when I was younger.
When I learned about the 10 makkos/splitting of the sea, and I’m not referring to kindergarten, I learned about how these events were critical for the formation of klal yisroel, and learned some of the wealth of meforshim on these topics. These are not mere stories. we are not meant to just open a chumash and read the text and say, oh that was a nice story. Kal V’chomer with medrash.
CS, can you explain what you mean by practical halacha coming to play? Are you referring to the fact that they brought a shaila to Shlomo about the inheritance? I don’t follow the logic of why it must mean that it took place literally. Couldn’t that also be part of the mashal? Are we paskening halacha based on this medrash?