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שו”תCategory: faithintuition
asked 2 years ago

The Rabbi in his lessons on faith always said that one can never trust an emotion and believe in God because of it. But on the other hand, the Rabbi said that a person can trust his intuition.
I would like to know what the main difference is between them?


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מיכי Staff answered 2 years ago
I have explained this more than once. Some call intuition an emotion, but this is a mistake. Both are not based on logical argument, but emotion expresses a subjective mental state, a mental attitude towards something, and intuition is a direct and unmediated perception of truth. From it arise the basic premises of logical arguments. When I love someone and you don’t – we have no argument. This love is my mental structure that is different from yours. It is not a statement of fact and therefore we have no argument. But when I say that I “feel” that the solution to the equation is 8, I mean that without doing a calculation I believe that the solution is 8. This is a statement of fact that can be tested and proven. Anyone who says that the solution is different is wrong and I have an argument with him. It is not an emotion but intuition. What is usually called ‘reason’ is a logical or mathematical calculation that leads to a result/conclusion. But people do not notice that every calculation and logical inference has assumptions, and these are not the result of a calculation/inference. They come from intuition.

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ארי replied 2 years ago

Intuition without testing is also a direct perception of the truth? That is, who said that the solution is really 8?
I understand that this is what you feel, but how can it also oblige someone who does not feel, since I believe that everyone has the way to believe in it?

מיכי Staff replied 2 years ago

I've written books about it. It's hard to go into detail here. Obviously, my intuition doesn't obligate you. But neither does my logic or observation. As far as I'm concerned, this is the truth (and it's not an emotion). The question of whether I think it's true and the question of how to convince someone else of it are different questions.

דטד replied 2 years ago

If you want to learn the Rabbinic method of intuition from the basics, which books should you read and in what order?

מיכי Staff replied 2 years ago

Offers the truth and not the unstable

ק replied 2 years ago

The Rabbi wrote that my logic or observation does not bind you.
Doesn't the Rabbi think that logic does bind someone else?
If not, then how does it bind God?

מיכי Staff replied 2 years ago

It obliges you if you also agree that this is what logic says. But the fact that I think that is what logic says does not oblige you.

. replied 2 years ago

So why do you assume that God agrees with you?

מיכי Staff replied 2 years ago

Because if he doesn't agree, then he's wrong, and my assumption is that God doesn't make mistakes.

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