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asked 4 years ago

Hello Rabbi
A. I wanted to ask how one can be commanded to believe or investigate faith (as the Rabbi suggested in the Rambam) if it is something intuitive? It is either you have it or you don’t.
B. Is it possible to base faith on something intuitive? And where is the place of the immediate, undeniable divine revelation in establishing our faith?
third. I still don’t understand why there is an obligation to obey morality?
Perhaps all things of value cannot be explained logically, but rather a person must choose them when there is an intuitive part of him that identifies them as good and moral.


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מיכי Staff answered 4 years ago
A. Intuitive claims can also be examined and clarified. Sometimes they can be derived from other claims that are based on intuition. For example, the evidence from complexity is based on the assumption that everything complex must have a component. A person can intuitively accept this claim, and deduce from it the existence of God (which was not clear to him in advance). B. I didn’t understand the question. Who said there was a place for this? Who said it was undeniable? And beyond all that, the arguments in favor of belief in God give you a philosophical God. Revelation gives you a religious God. You can’t take that out of philosophy. C. There is no answer. If you understand what a moral is, it is obvious that it must be obeyed. If you don’t understand, then it cannot be explained. It is like an axiom in geometry. It cannot be explained to someone who doesn’t understand it. But it is clearly true. The alternative of choosing because you recognize it as good is the commitment I’m talking about. Therefore, there is an obligation to obey because you recognize it as good.

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