Favorite quote about faith
Sharing a lovely quote that I recently found in the Ramban (Faith and Security, Chapter 18):
“And every faith is knowledge from evidence that compels one to believe that it is so. And what is accepted from mouth to mouth is called faith, and every faith requires knowledge. I mean, let him believe what he knows.”
I’m not sure I fully understood. But thank you.
I'm not sure about that either. But it's clear from this that faith is not a mystical emotion. Faith is equal to knowledge. It seems to me that from this, faith is not perceived in the absence of the absences and the unity of opposites. It's not knowledge in any sense.
Maybe. Although there are contradictions in his words and it is difficult to conclude anything from his concealment.
Rabbi Michi, do you think there are places in the Ramban that indicate that he believed that God is above logic?! This is new to me. I would appreciate quotes or sources.
In the 17th of Shabbat
A compilation and analysis of the opinions of the first and last, the philosophers and the Kabbalists, on the issue of ‘God and the laws of logic’ – in Dr. Israel Netanel Rubin's book, ‘That which God cannot do’, published by Reuven Mas. A review of it by Prof. Nadav Shnerb, ‘To create a stone and to lift it’, on the ‘Mosaf Shabbat – Makor Rishon’ website.
With best regards, William M. Fitzgerald
Beautiful. And there is no mention of the position that the Ramban believed in the Nman”a
A, my answer to you appears here for some reason. I wrote to you that I am not familiar with the Ramban, but there is no such thing as a being “above logic.” Therefore, the claim that God is above logic is not at all understandable to me, and I certainly cannot deduce it from the Ramban.
And I also referred to Robin's book (and even suspected that he might have written the message himself. I don't remember Nico there anymore).
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