Several questions and requests for the rabbi

Greetings,
A. A transplant can be very reasonable. A group of fairly primitive people who are given Torah and explained a few things to them, and from there on it becomes a tradition. I didn't understand how it can be stated that it is not reasonable? Especially since the Bible tells of things that are more unreasonable. And I am not talking now about a rational approach against miracles, but rather it is more plausible to believe that Torah was given to the people in some way (we need to think of a rather more precise theory) than to think about miracles that occurred at such levels and in such forms and with such frequency to an entire people, etc.
B. If we define a person who believes as someone who takes the approach that God exists because he was educated to do so or because he found reasonable evidence for it, then any person who holds such a position is a believer. If he can change such a position due to new discoveries, then he is not an atheist, but rather a believer who became an atheist due to logical considerations. A person who loved someone and then began to hate them due to negative actions that the other person began to do - this is natural, and it does not mean that the other person potentially hated them in the first place.

A. Very reasonable? Does his honor diminish and make fun of our first sages?!
I will illustrate, you need to remember that the things narrated in the Torah are not miracles performed before individuals but before a people. And miracles that happened in a specific place and time (not miracles in heaven).
If you were to give that “foolish” people [as you define them, of course, these are empty words that you must substantiate in order to explain this] the Torah and claim that the miracle was performed in this place a year ago. Would they accept the claim that they left Egypt while no one left Egypt and heard neither of the parting of the Red Sea nor of the standing of Mount Sinai!?????? Of course not. These are empty words.

Hence the only possibility is to give the Torah after a long time, claiming that the miracles happened in the past.
Oops, there is a small problem in the Torah, it is said that the people described are the same people written about in the Torah. And there is a small problem, this people has no knowledge that this is what happened to them. It is illogical to instill history - the Torah in an already established nation!!
It is the only option to reach the nation by claiming that your ancestors did indeed come from Egypt and there were miracles, etc. and everything was forgotten [it is almost impossible to forget such a tradition! This is an argument about chicken pox] and I am the only one who remembers, so please accept it. Of course, this option is also very problematic. Moreover, it contradicts what is written in the Torah that the Torah will not be forgotten by its descendants, and there are many other arguments that contradict this option.

So let's take Dog, you are a primitive and stupid person and claim that you once had ancestors who came out of Egypt and had miracles that all the nations heard about and everything was forgotten, but someone remembers it, so start keeping the commandments.
These are empty and evil words.

That's it in short. Mr. Matam.

David, why the anger and the slander? A person makes factual claims and deserves factual answers. I also disagree with the firmness and certainty in your words, although in the end I do agree.

A. I don't see a way to systematically investigate the claim of the graft when it is presented in such a general way. I wrote what I had in the above notebook.

B. As I explained, a belief based on an error in my opinion is not a belief. Just as an agreement you make based on incorrect information is automatically null and void (I know that I haven't made up my mind). It cannot be compared to love, since love is an emotional state and not a worldview or claim. If I love someone, then I love them, even if this love developed because I was unaware of some things about them.

I will respond to the rabbi only, with everyone's permission.
A. A group of people get together and decide to establish Judaism. They give the Torah to a people of people who are not that wise. These people accept the Torah and after a while also write to them that it is forbidden to add to or change it, and that they have seen the status, etc. They explain to them what the words mean and that it is not as it is, etc., etc. It is easy to invent how a religion developed because the book was given to a group of people who received it under certain circumstances. The main point is that the evidence for the status of Mount Sinai and the historical argument are not strong at all, since there may be another alternative that saves me the need to accept great miracles and incomprehensible things told in the Bible.
B. A belief based on error is not a belief in what respect exactly? We define at least for the sake of discussion that faith is taking a certain position either by evidence or because of the reality that took me to this place, from then on I believe in a certain thing – let's say – God. Now I believe in him with all my heart, can the reality of my belief in him be denied? No. What happens after that will only change the situation – I will become an atheist who has stopped believing. My belief was correct in something that I thought was true and it turned out not to be. The fact that in practice right now I believe that there is no God does not mean that there is no objective change, but that this is the position I am taking now. But of course I believed before…

Thank you!

Sorry, Your Honor, I simply do not like all these foolish postmodernists.

“The foundation of the species is darkness and upon it all the temples of the species were built, meaning that the species who deny the Torah of Moses and say that Moses never did these deeds and that they all did not exist and were not created are only liars or the infidels who also deny Moses and say that Moses never existed or that David and Solomon were not in the world and similar heresies that the species deny – They were all built on the foundation of darkness, as if they were making the whole world a mystery as if there were no visitor and researcher of antiquity who would reach out to visit and research the past from the beginning, and as if there were no such thing in the world of chronicles in which there would be acts of antiquity, and therefore it occurs to them that it could be possible in reality that a person would steal from his heart such numbers and names of people as David, Solomon, Moses and Joshua and do his work in the darkness and also to memorize the order of the chain of Kabbalah and the names of the generations and their heads and presidents and kings in the correct order, and the whole people would accept from him and believe in him, and even though they are full of sages and scribes, they would still believe in him, because their hand is short to visit things and recognize their origin because they do not know what was before them. This is the foundation of the mystery that darkness will cover the earth. (Mevtser Hadat, Article 1).

Friends,
A. A group of people get together and decide to establish a field called mathematics. From there on, they sell us all the lies as if they are proving theorems and dealing with smart and important things. But no one understands what they are doing. So maybe it's all nonsense? Another group gets together and decides to sell us all the lies that a black president has been elected in the US. They spread pictures and news and information, and that's how we are all convinced. Is there an explanation why this is not true? Conspiracy theories are not lies. You can come up with tons of theories like this about anything in the world. The bottom line is that it is a general impression that each of us has, so it is difficult to argue with it.
B. You are wrong. Faith is not a state of mind but a statement of fact. When an atheist is hypnotized into believing in God, I will not include him in the minyan, even though mentally and experientially he now believes. Likewise, when I say there is a chair in front of me, it is not just a report of a mental state (a feeling that there is a chair here) but a claim that there is a chair in front of me (which is based on the recognition within me, of course). Recognition of a chair without a claim that this recognition indicates that there really is a chair here is not recognition but simply an illusory mental state. The claim 2+2=4 is not evidence or a report of a mental state, but an objective claim about a truth that is outside of me.
I highly recommend that you read C.S. Lewis's (yes, the one from Narnia), The Annihilation of Man, published by Shalem, which from the very beginning explains this point beautifully.

Peace and blessings,
A. I have no reason to think about the things you claim9. On the other hand, the Jewish religion raises many questions and perplexities, strange descriptions and things that need to be explained. It may be true, but a lot of work is needed to explain and explain… The things that Judaism claims raise questions and perplexities that make it difficult to accept. Grandiose miracles are a classic example. Why should I accept this? It is difficult for me to believe that there is such a thing and I have not seen such a thing… and now you claim that there was – prove it. And if you want to prove it, I will argue that it is not sufficiently proven because there may have been a transplant and it is quite clear and understandable if I have to choose between this and believing the stories that I have to explain so much and understand, etc.’…
B. First, I will argue that as soon as a person is clearly conscious and understands that there is a Creator – he believes. A person who claims that there is a God is like a person who claims that a mathematical equation produces a certain result. Does he believe in it? In both cases – Yes. As soon as he is proven otherwise – In both cases he changes his position, although this does not mean that he did not believe in it.
In addition, according to your opinion, no one believes that it is possible that anyone can be mistaken and change his mind if he is proven otherwise than what he knows. And it is clear that there are wiser atheists than certain believers, and they will not have an answer to give when they try to prove to them that the existence of God is not necessary or unnecessary…

1. “Know that all miracles and wonders that are beyond the realm of nature and beyond human understanding have no power to strengthen faith only by one of these two means, namely: a). Either the entire people see the miracles and wonders with their own eyes. b). Or the miracles and wonders are held among the people by true acceptance from their ancestors and elders that the miracles and wonders that are recounted are true without any doubt, then the more the miracles and wonders increase in quantity and quality, and the more they are beyond human understanding, the greater their power to strengthen faith even more, for it is evident to all that they are the works of God and not the work of man, and all believe that they are the work of God and not the work of man.

But before the stories and miracles are held to be true and clear, that it was so, and yet they are still sufficient in miracles, and they are to them an obscure mystery, then not only do miracles not maintain faith in God, but they weaken faith, and the wonderful story, which is a wonder of the mind, is not at all useful in strengthening faith, and on the contrary, it causes the narrator to be considered a liar and a falsifier, since the miracles have not yet been held to be true and clear by them.

And everyone who has a mind in his own right to weigh anything in a balance, and every wise man will understand and understand that all the stories of the Torah that amaze the hearts of their hearers, and the miracles and wonders and greatness that go beyond the bounds of nature and are above human knowledge, and that the human mind will not be able to accept as true words in a whole nation, except the nation that saw all the miracles with their own eyes, and their children and the generations after them who received them with true acceptance from their fathers who saw everything with their own eyes, that all the stories are true. And if Moses the fourth century had written his book and placed it in his treasury, or if someone else had invented it from his heart and brought it to Israel, as the desire that speaks from your throat, without expiration (emptying), Israel would not have accepted from him the Torah, whose volumes are great and terrible and the like of which they have never heard, and even if they had no clear evidence with which to deny it, they would not have accepted from him such a Torah, whose volumes amaze the heart of those who know it and everyone who hears it will save both his ears, and since we have been held to the Torah for several thousand years and for which we have sacrificed thousands and tens of thousands of souls of our brothers, it is a sign to the world that the Torah was given in the days of Moses and all the people saw with their own eyes all the miracles written in it and they passed it on to their children after them. (Mevtarsi Hadat, article 1:34)

I would suggest that you read the book. Of course! After! The rabbi's understanding in the fifth notebook (which is the beginning of Ma'amer A in Kozari). And it would be good if you also read the complete Book of the Covenant, Ma'amer Emunah.

And know that man must believe in me
And if he does not believe and his bitter heart together with his stubborn inclination
He will return and gamble in a crooked way
Woe to him from the day of rebuke, woe to his Maker
Because he will not spare his miserable soul
How can he doubt the words of life within him
And nothing stands in the way of the will
Because in the call it is blessed

Speech of the Prophet Nostradamus

Dedicated to David

Hello Rabbi Michi, still waiting for an answer… thank you.

Hello friends.

A. I wrote what I had to write here and in the notebook. If you don't think so, good luck.

B. I didn't understand what this is about and what you are claiming.

As for the hidden atheist, I only just now answered this in detail here on the site and I can't find it.
My argument is that there is no reason to prohibit an investigation, since the investigation only reveals the person's position, and even if he doesn't investigate - if when he was exposed to all the arguments he would reach apostasy, then he is still an infidel (hidden).
If a person investigated and reached a conclusion, then of course there is no guarantee that this is his final conclusion, but he did what he could. Therefore, in my opinion, there is no reason except that there is no point in prohibiting an investigation.

Here:
https://mikyab.net/שות/אמונה-2/

Thank you very much.