National consciousness
Hello Rabbi,
I wanted to know how the Jewish religion is different from any other Greek mythology/national consciousness you’ve seen in Palestine.
Thanks in advance!
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Why not claim that the Jewish tradition is false?
Just as we assume that the Greek is false.
And so is a people who are currently having the Palestinian lie born before our eyes.
So if something relatively simple like the history of a people – that we see that in less than 60 years it is possible for an entire people to change their past from a young people to a people who feel they are ancient.
Then stop with things that are mythological like miracles and religious rituals.
This is too broad a question to discuss here. See my fifth notebook for an outline for the discussion.
I read the above notebook (and the rest of the notebooks too)
I still think the rabbi skipped this part
The rabbi probably wants to say that if the chance that what is described in the Torah scroll will happen is reasonable, then we will stand by the tradition.
Only if we think it is unreasonable - Greek mythology (even though most of the gods are nature) will we contradict its words and say that it evolved.
But still, if we see that it is so easy to assimilate tradition and national consciousness - see the value of the Palestinian people.
So why even refer to the tradition and not directly contradict its words?
Even if there is a reasonable chance that the process it describes could be correct.
But the vehicle for transmitting the tradition - the people - is simply so weak that it cannot be trusted at all.
For example, we have no reason to reject the fact that the Palestinian people have always been here. But it is still a lie that will be completely assimilated in less than 60 years…
So how do we know that it is really a lie? If we do not have a broad front of sources on the matter. Then we will not hesitate to reject it with both hands.
For example, if the one who conveys the event to us is only the Palestinian people - a lie
Many peoples and history books – truth.
Of course, it is possible that the people alone will convey the truth, but we are not able to accept such a tradition.
Because what can we do? A national tradition is like an unfulfilled bill, a fake bill.
A national tradition that is based on broad historical writings from the same period (not a later period) – like a fulfilled bill.
(And the rabbi won't say that Judaism has a broader front than Islam and Christianity, because Christianity believed in Greek mythology before that, so you can see how easy it was for it to believe in a lie. This is not called a broad front for Judaism. And certainly no one claims that it saw the Mount Sinai stand or was close to these events)
The rabbi didn't address this point that much. I would like the rabbi to address it more.
It is very easy to assimilate a lot of things. It is very easy to deceive our vision, and we still do not doubt our vision. It is very easy to fabricate history and we still believe in historical traditions (about Julius Caesar and Napoleon, etc.). This is about common sense, and the examples of the distorted use of common sense add nothing here. Such an argument can attack any claim that comes to mind.
Beyond that, there are the entire set of considerations presented in the notebook that add up to a perfectly reasonable consideration. I do not see what I can elaborate on more than that.
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