Scholarly thinking and universal thinking
I started listening to the rabbi’s course on scholarly thinking. I would like to know whether the rabbi further addresses the question of whether scholarly thinking is different from human thinking or whether it is simply human thinking applied in the Gemara. Thank you very much.
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Thank you, Honorable Rabbi.
At the beginning of lesson 3, the Rabbi talks about the yeshivah investigation into harmful material and brings up the other side that the compelling reason is that it is your material,
The Rabbi raises a question as to whether this side makes sense or not, not going into this specific case. My question is in principle, does the Rabbi believe that in yeshivah investigations, sometimes such illogical sides are raised and what is the Rabbi's response to this? Is this right?
Absolutely. Unfortunately, this is a sick evil in Yeshivas thinking. They bring up all sides and do not filter out what makes sense and what does not. It is true that sometimes one can be surprised and discover that there is a side that seems illogical and turns out to be logical or necessary, but this is quite rare. There are sides that are quite clearly not logical. Is confession of faith a commitment or loyalty? Is shweya anafshiya loyalty or a vow? It is clear that both are loyalty and there is nothing to investigate here. Permitted or rejected in the Piko’n on Shabbat. It is clear that in fact it is permitted, meaning that there is no nef’m.
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