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Explanation of the stapler’s words

שו”תCategory: faithExplanation of the stapler’s words
asked 9 years ago

Hello.
In his book Life of a World, chapter 2, Hastifler talks about ‘how false opinions are spread’ and tastefully explains how mythologies are created.
I wanted to ask what exactly the difference between his words and Judaism is?


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מיכי Staff answered 9 years ago
Hello. I don’t know the stapler’s words, so I’ll answer generally. The fact that false opinions can be created in some way does not mean that every opinion is false. Nor does it mean that every opinion that appears to have been created in a similar way is false. The determination of whether an opinion is false or not is made by examining the opinion itself (its logical basis) and its sources. After seeing in such an examination that it is false, one can ask how it was formed and accepted if it is false. The way it was formed in itself (and certainly suspicion of one way or another) does not mean that the opinion is false. And about this our sages said (ibid., ibid.) that just because you are paranoid does not mean that you are not being persecuted. And I added, as the KJV (in a column on sects), that even if you are being persecuted, it does not mean that you are not paranoid.

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