Commandment to believe
I heard your podcast about faith, and there you talked about not being able to command belief. A question about that:
You defined before that belief = knowledge, and apparently someone can be commanded to know something (for example, commanding a student to know the contents of a book before a test). I may not punish a person who tried his best to know and failed, but the command would still be to know (=to believe).
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The commandment I propose is not to make the effort to find out, but to actually believe. This will be expressed practically (probably, although I am not sufficiently versed in the way God runs His world) in the effort to find out, as with many commandments that cannot be kept due to certain constraints (attaching intention to action, etc.).
The question below is the well-known question about Maimonides, but not the question I came to solve.
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