A religious experience.

It is difficult to characterize what a religious feeling is. But in any study of a subject there is astonishment: from the order, from the power of generalization, from the delicate logical structure, and in addition (perhaps there are those for whom this is the main thing) there is the content itself, which sometimes arouses astonishment when one understands it and perhaps identifies with it. It seems to me that in the natural sciences one cannot be astonishment by the content as such, but only by the elegance of the structure, by cracking the riddle, by the generalization of countless phenomena in a small set of equations. But in moral philosophy, for example, and in halacha, for those who try (and succeed) to understand the meaning, and especially if they carve out beliefs from their human inclination and not as a formal way out of difficulties - there can also be astonishment by the content. But I need to learn much more to try to diagnose.