Question

In your article, where you try to explain the commandment concerning emotions in Jewish law in a Platonic way, you argued that commands relating to emotions are not connected to the eruption of a spontaneous feeling, but rather to an intellectual recognition of an idea that is the object of love—such as Jewishness, conversion, and the like. You argued there that this resolves the difficulty of how one can command emotions, since what is involved here is an intellectual process. But according to your view, that one cannot command thought, why does the fact that this is an intellectual recognition solve the problem? If, for example, I hold that conversion is not a proper object of love, how can one command or another help change that?