The relationship with God and Judaism
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Hello Rabbi Michi,
A question I thought about before the giving of the Torah:
Reuven, a Torah-observant Jew, is as careful about what is easy as it is difficult, at the age of 45.
Ask yourself, "If I were to discover that I am a Gentile (let's say I was adopted from another country, and they haven't found out until now), would I choose to convert?"
The questions are:
A) If he answers himself the answer 'no' or even if he hesitates and suppose he eventually says yes, does the fact that he answers himself the answer 'no' or even hesitates mean that there is any reason for a flaw in his current relationship (whatever it may be) with God or Judaism?
What is this like? A married couple and there is peace and harmony between them, but it turns out after 20 years of marriage that there was a problem with their wedding ceremony and they are really not married, so the wife says to her husband, "So let's go to the person who is arranging the wedding ceremony and wedding ceremony tomorrow and get married." Her husband replies, "Wait a minute, not so fast, let's think about it, maybe each of us will go our separate ways…?" Even if her husband thought about it and ultimately decided yes, I think the wife would be very, very hurt by the very thoughtlessness, and it gives rise to a flaw in the entire relationship.
Perhaps according to the method of the rabbi who advocates lean Judaism, then there is only halakha, and then there is not that much difference between a Jew and a gentile except for the number of commandments that are binding on those who believe, so it is only a matter of quantity, so we can liken it to an employee in a company who thought for a moment that he had 100 tasks to do, and after a few years discovered that he really only had 7 tasks to do, then there is no problem with him stopping doing the 93 unnecessary tasks and doing only 7 and no one, neither the CEO nor the VP, will be harmed by it.
on) What is the correct parable? Or does the rabbi have a different parable?
Thank you very much,
Blessings and success.
I don't know how to answer such questions. Whether there is a point to the flaw or not, decide for yourself or ask God. I think I was once asked what I would do if I were born a Gentile or if it turned out that I was a Gentile. I don't know.
And it is not appropriate for a great man like you to formulate a position on this. What would he do if he discovered in a remote archive that his mother was adopted from a Christian family?
If it turns out that I'm a Gentile, I won't be a great person anymore, so everything is fine.
Hello. Thank you very much. And regarding the parables I brought, how do we illustrate the relationship of the Jew with his Judaism or with God? Based on that, we will know how to answer, right?
I see no point in going into these examples. When you decide what your attitude is, you can also determine your attitude to the examples.
I didn't fully understand the answer,
For the rabbi, the existence of God is a factual claim, and one arrives at it philosophically, and I also understood that the rabbi takes the status of Mount Sinai as a fact, as something given, and approaches these issues as objectively as possible, but regarding the relationship, do I decide what it is? Has it already become subjective? Where in the world is there a connection or a substantial relationship that I decide its nature? I do not decide the nature and essence of my relationship with my wife, and I certainly will not ask her if my hesitation about whether to marry her again will give rise to a flaw, because the very question will offend her, and that itself will give rise to a flaw, because the nature and essence of this relationship is given. And every relationship is given, even if it is a relationship whose nature and essence both parties have agreed on in advance. And since I personally did not conclude anything with the Blessed One, at least not consciously, perhaps our ancestors at Mount Sinai, but it is still not me, hence the nature and essence of this relationship is a given, and therefore in my humble opinion (unless I am missing something here), the question arose and has remained, what is the relationship with the Blessed One and Judaism? Personally, it is easier for me to use a parable, and therefore I asked the Rabbi in his opinion, which parable seems to the Rabbi to be correct? Or if there is another parable or even another simple explanation. Thank you and sorry for digging.
I saw and I was exhausted.
Thank you very much. May God bless you.
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