The religiosity that the rabbi offers
Hello Rabbi, I personally asked this question many years ago, but I wanted to ask you if you think your thin theology can really work from a practical perspective? That is, if I understand correctly, then your theology says that there is a God, He gave the Torah and that’s the end of the story, but: science is binding, there is no divine intervention, the Chazal are not necessarily right and everything is interpretation, part of the Torah was not written by God, one must be committed to logic and universal morality, and so on and so forth. The problem with this theology, in my opinion, is that the principles of the Alah (which you do not accept) are too deep in religious and ultra-Orthodox society (where I came from). In other words, it seems as if if we dismantle the Alah foundations, a religious society simply cannot exist or, to put it differently, many will abandon it. Now, personally, as a secular person, this does not bother me. The question is, does the Rabbi, as a religious person, not bother him? Does the Rabbi think that this can really take a lot of people out of religious society once they give up these principles, which are quite basic?
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I didn't understand, if the main thing is ultimately to keep the Torah and commandments, then are you saying that it is better for many people not to be religious than for them to be religious and believe in things that are not true? (Of course, this is not a dichotomy for every person, but on a macro level I believe there will be a lot of repetition in the question)
Yes, you understand.
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