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The difference between the Mount Sinai situation and the stories of revelations among the nations – continued

שו”תCategory: faithThe difference between the Mount Sinai situation and the stories of revelations among the nations – continued
asked 8 years ago

Thank you Rabbi for the response, but I still have a difficulty. When there are millions of people in a nation with a variety of opinions that have been cultivated over the generations, will a person arise and claim something that apparently does not match the majority of opinions – will his narrative prevail? Although there are a variety of halachic disputes, on the issue of the number of people, the narrative prevailed until, over the generations that followed, there were no disputes about it? (To the point that it was written in detail in the Torah).
In the stories of the righteous, it can be argued that they will undergo adaptation because the witnesses to them are few and sometimes the miracles are described as something that is easy to mistake and illustrate. It can also be said that the narrative already shared by those people is what convinced them, but in the AMI there were other opinions that they did not accept and shared, contrary to the matter of quantity that everyone agreed on despite the narrative of preserving tradition. Thank you very much again!


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מיכי Staff answered 8 years ago
As mentioned, in my opinion this is a very weak argument. There are certainly narratives that take over. Go and see how the Palestinians believe in their invented history. As I wrote, the narrative you are talking about did not necessarily start when there were millions of opinions. It could start with a few individuals. Another example is the Hazon Ish classes that took over the halakhic narrative when they had almost no supporters until then. Well, we are repeating ourselves.

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רועי replied 8 years ago

If it is so easy to invent narratives why do you assume that the Torah is not also another one?

And that is why the argument from tradition is so weak, as Israeli logic and science have proven

מיכי Staff replied 8 years ago

I explained in the fifth notebook. I suggest you ignore the above author of fools who have proven nothing.

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