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Perfect Torah

שו”תCategory: faithPerfect Torah
asked 12 months ago

Hello, Your Honor.
If God really gave the Torah.
Isn’t the Torah supposed to be perfect, understandable to everyone in its commandments and details, without any shortcomings, contradictions, difficulties or problems?!
As I would expect it to be if there were a divine Torah?
Does the fact that it is not clear that it is the same Torah that God gave show that there is no such thing?!
Because I would expect a Torah that God gave to be clear as such?


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מיכי Staff answered 12 months ago
There are a few more things I don’t understand. Why not eat pork? Why do we wear a lulav? What about impurity and purity? Couldn’t he have explained all of this to us? It turns out that he doesn’t always act according to what seems logical to us. As I told Yron Yadan, my conviction that the Torah from God is not based on its content and structure. Therefore, problems with content and structure don’t have much meaning for me.

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אמי replied 12 months ago

I would be happy if the Rabbi could be more precise. Is the Rabbi actually saying that there is indeed a deficiency in the content and structure and manner of receiving the Torah and that there are indeed many problems and contradictions in it that we would not expect from divine Torah. And in any case, the strength of the view of tradition plus a few other smaller pieces of evidence are stronger than the many problems in its content and structure? Thank you.

משה replied 12 months ago

The same question also applies to nature, if the Creator created nature, why is it not perfect and logical?

Apparently the Creator has his own logic (perhaps part of it is the desire to hide his presence). This answer is also valid for the Torah.

מיכי Staff replied 12 months ago

My mother, indeed.

אמי replied 12 months ago

The Rabbi would also like to know if the Rabbi thinks that it is possible to deduce from the way in which He wrote and gave the Torah (for example, in a hidden and not entirely clear way) the way in which He operates in the rest of the world, or whether it is possible that it is hopeless to even try to "discover" the way in which God thinks or acts according to the inference of the word "word"?

מיכי Staff replied 12 months ago

I don't know. I suppose if you make a concrete claim about the world because of something in the Torah, I wouldn't accept it unless I was independently convinced that it was indeed so.

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