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שו”תCategory: faithInsights from your editor about simple faith.
asked 6 years ago

Hello Rabbi.
I started listening to your article on simple faith. I haven’t finished it yet, but some insight occurred to me during the break.
The innocent person in himself can be highly appreciated for his devotion, innocence, and authenticity. The problem begins with an entire public that becomes innocent. So, instead of the anarchy of the innocent individual who does not obey the laws but follows his own heart, it becomes a kind of dictatorship of innocents who prohibit and mock critical thinking, persecute those who violate their laws (which, as far as they are concerned, are all from Sinai), and usually they worship some human figure like God. What do you say about this analysis?
By the way, in Rabbi Nachman of Breslov’s The Wise and the Foolish, in one of the debates between the wise and the fool, the fool claims that he can reach the height of the wise, but the wise will never reach his height. The wise mocks him and claims that if his opposite is taken away from him, he will be at the level of the fool, but the fool will never be as wise as he is. In my humble opinion, the wise is truly wrong. The fool is not crazy as the wise claims. There is virtue in him. The question is how the wise will reach what the fool has (authentic devotion). Do you think that wise people can achieve this and remain in their wisdom?


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מיכי Staff answered 6 years ago
I disagree. There is a problem with naive faith, even in a single person. There is no ideal in being stupid. The naive believes in devotion because they have not invested critical thinking. What is the point in that? It is true that wisdom threatens devotion, so we can try to deal with it and not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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