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Following on from that question, have you researched other religions with the same efforts as you did the Jewish religion? Have you tried to give them a chance? I'm talking in terms of investment in material, etc., not a chance from a psychological perspective, which, as mentioned, is more complex.

I understand that you are not satisfied. You must have expected a blunt answer. This is the childishness I spoke about in the previous message.
And to your current question, no. But I have not studied Judaism very deeply either. I study it a lot, but it is not part of the research that examines whether it is correct. I have not devoted much time to this research (see in the first post the relationship between the discussion of the existence of God and the discussion of Judaism). A person has to make decisions under conditions of uncertainty, and it is not possible to go through all the options that exist (all religions). Therefore, we do what seems reasonable, and that is it. God did not come in a state of complaint with His creatures and the Torah was not given to the ministering angels.
Furthermore, as I wrote there, it does not really matter who is right here. The exclusive (exclusionary) discourse is for internal needs. If a person does his best to worship God, he is likely to receive appropriate treatment, even if he was wrong. And in general, he may not have been wrong. Every person worships God according to what he understands, and of course it also depends on his upbringing.
Now another “off” will probably come…

I never understood this argument, in any case if there is a true belief there are people who belong to it. To say that the low probability shows that my judgment is probably wrong and I probably think what I think only because of my environment makes any discussion of belief unnecessary.

On the 2nd of Kislev, 2011

To my father, greetings,

To your question, why not examine the other religions that are the majority before accepting Judaism, which is the minority?

A. The monotheistic religions whose believers number in the hundreds of millions - Christianity and Islam - are the history of Judaism. Why look for imitations that filled the world with violence and cruelty when we have the original?

B. Christianity and Islam are based on the argument of revelation to their founders, which only a few testify to. In contrast, the divine revelation at Sinai was witnessed by millions who passed on what they saw to their sons and descendants, who preserved the tradition that imposed on them a heavy burden of commandments and hatred from the nations, and in all trials the nation remained faithful.

C. The spread of Christianity and Islam was controlled by strong regimes in which these religions were the ‘state religion’ whose opponents were suppressed and persecuted. In contrast, Judaism flourished, maintained its strength, and even influenced all of humanity, precisely in situations of weakness and division. This is both evidence of the credibility of its messages in the eyes of the nation, and also evidence of the power of the God of Israel who ’protected his sheep from seventy wolves’ who were ready to devour it.

Greetings, Fish”l

There is no point in talking about pagan religions in a world where we see that the same uniform laws of nature operate from the largest of the stars to the smallest of the particles. The uniform law – indicates ‘one leader per capital’.

It should also be noted that precisely because we are a minority that needs to defend its position before the ruling majority – the sages of Israel needed to constantly deal with the arguments of the cultures and religions in which they lived. Therefore, when we study and delve into the thought of Judaism throughout its generations – we actually examine all the counterarguments of the cultures and religions of the world. We receive ‘the truth from the one who said it’, while sifting through the chaff.

Best regards, Fish”l

Rabbi, do you have an argument regarding peer disagreement that is more up-to-date than the previous one?
Because the previous one is not considered sufficiently convincing, and this is a problem against postmodernism.

Thank you all for your beautiful answers.
The problem I pointed out was not a claim that it is impossible to verify the truth, but rather a claim that it is very difficult to verify it. You brought me all kinds of beautiful proofs of the truth of Judaism and they certainly support it, but the fact that you found all the proofs in Jewish books and did not even bother to check the literature of other religions is the problem I pointed out,
For example, without examining in depth, it suddenly turns out that there are laws of Hammurabi that precede and are similar to our Torah, for example in relation to claim A.
I remember once seeing a debate by Ben Shapiro about Ida, an Arab student, and there the Arab claimed that the Six-Day War was an offensive war to conquer more territories and not a defensive war. I remember it blew my mind how different the narratives can be.

Rabbi Michael's argument goes in a different direction, the problem is that he says in explicit words that he does not know if Judaism is true, he just hopes that God will judge him for his true intentions.