A good education and a correct attitude
Peace, Your Honor,
A somewhat beginner’s question and a bit mundane.
Your books and your teachings in general, which talk about forming an objective position as much as possible. About truth and not instability. About critical thinking alongside loyalty to the command of the Kabbalah as it appears in Halacha – are intended, in my humble opinion, for educated audiences only.
After all, the common man does not have the ability and time to sit at home and study a page of Gemara with the commentary of all the first and last. To do a heavy analysis of their opinions, a numerical calculation of the number of opinions one way or the other, and then decide. At the same time, read books on the approaches of Orthodoxy to its generations in the relationship between the Torah and the modern world. From this it follows that, as a matter of fate, every person relies on what a rabbi has done for him – in every field – religion, politics, art, philosophy, and the like. And this rabbi’s work is ultimately based on a gut feeling, and not a serious examination of the arguments of their types.
Do you think there is an objective level of education, IQ, etc., by which a person can be measured and is most likely to take the right stance?
Indeed, it is not intended for everyone but for the most important. I wrote this in my article on autonomy. But a person should strive to be the most important. There is no problem in making a rabbi out of a gut feeling. This is the tool of the Baalbek.
In that article, I wrote one criterion for being the best, if you return to the same issue after a year or two and usually reach the same conclusions. But obviously there is no absolute mathematical standard.
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