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Confidence and effort

שו”תConfidence and effort
asked 4 years ago

According to the thesis of confidence and effort (I know you don’t hold it, but I would be happy if you could still answer me according to their method),
Virtues, blessings, and all the other things of that kind –
Do we fall into the category of effort or confidence?
(On the one hand, this is not complete confidence because a factor other than God is involved here, and on the other hand, it is also not an effort because I do rely on Kabbalah here in a certain sense)
 


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מיכי Staff answered 4 years ago
Check the dictionary. This question has no meaning. It’s just semantics. Who cares what it’s called? Call it whatever you want.

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EA replied 4 years ago

I don't understand why this is just semantics. It's about the concepts of confidence and effort. Is virtue effort or confidence? This is strictly a conceptual analysis, isn't it?

מיכי replied 4 years ago

This is not a conceptual analysis, but simply a definition. This question has no meaning. If you define security this way, it will be security, and if you define security differently, it will be effort. Why is this interesting?

מיכי Staff replied 4 years ago

Note that the analysis was already done in the question. He suggested two definitions there and the result is different according to each of them. So what am I supposed to add? To say which of the two definitions is correct? There is a dictionary for that.

איתן replied 4 years ago

I actually think that the question about the operation of virtues does have significance (and some implications emerge from this regarding the obligation of effort).
For the sake of example, it is just like conducting an investigation into what is required in the law of damage to evidence - there too there are two options for defining two definitions and the result is different according to each of them. In this case, I will not go to the dictionary but will check with the explanation which is more correct and maybe I will also try to compare to all sorts of cases

But in any case, since I am asking a method that does define confidence and effort precisely, the rabbi is really not the appropriate address for this question
Thank you very much

מיכי Staff replied 4 years ago

You are not asking about the definition of concepts, but rather what is permitted and what is prohibited. You should ask that of those who think that there is permitted and prohibited with confidence and effort.

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