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Regarding lesson 4 in the series on faith

שו"תRegarding lesson 4 in the series on faith
שאל לפני 3 שנים

 
Hello Rabbi Michi,
In lesson 4 of your series on faith (thanks again for the excellent series on YouTube), you deal with the difficulty of commanding a person to believe in a fact and how this fits in with Mitzvah A to the Rambam. You suggest that it may be that the command is indeed about examination and investigation and not about belief itself. According to this, there could be a person who in fact does not believe but nevertheless fulfills the mitzvah because he has investigated and tested, on the other hand, a person who in fact does believe but does not fulfill the mitzvah because his belief is not based on independent investigation and examination but on intuition or on trust in tradition and education, and so on. Is this true? Is it obligatory for a person who already believes in God, but not by virtue of examination and investigation, to go out and investigate in order to fulfill the mitzvah?


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מיכי צוות ענה לפני 3 שנים
If the mitzvah is to investigate, then the one who investigated exists. It is possible that the mitzvah is to investigate, but there is a condition that you will reach the right results (like in fertility and reproduction, where there is a mitzvah to strive and the condition is that there will be a son and a daughter). A person who believes without investigating may also be fulfilling the mitzvah, because the mitzvah is to investigate as much as necessary until one reaches the correct conclusion. Those who are already there do not need to investigate further. But this was just a hypothesis I casually raised regarding the puzzling commentary in the Rambam that enumerates the mitzvah. I don't know how to answer you because the whole matter is very puzzling.

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