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From Ockham’s razor we learned that it is better to minimize assumptions as long as they are sufficient to explain the totality of phenomena. I recently read what you wrote ‘against’ Torah commentators, ‘against’ providence in this time, and all sorts of other phenomena in Judaism. Isn’t a partial explanation of the phenomenon of Judaism enough to indicate a deficiency in the entire theory? One can argue against Rabbi Kook’s harmonist path, but there is a very strong point in him, and that is that he will not reject anything that is out of place, and every word, even chatter, from the Torah, receives meaning and joins the whole?
In other words, is your interpretation of the Torah interpretive or legislative?
And so as not to leave the email incomplete: I heard complaints about His Honor mentioning the sages of the Gentiles too much, and I said I would answer partially as well 🙂
Instead of saying in your lessons that there is a halal ban for a total of two hundred servings of two liters of beer, but three are permitted, you could mention the words of the Talmud at the end of the Book of Revelation (18:2) that two sheep are forbidden to be bought from a shepherd, lest they be stolen, but four are permitted, since the Shevab will feel it.
Happy and blessed New Year to all of us.
Hello.
Thank you for the example. It is indeed beautiful and in place (although I think there is a bit to share, and that’s okay).
As for the razor principle, I once heard a discussion based on Occam’s razor about dualism, which is a less simple theory than materialism, since it has two components and in it there is only one. Occam’s razor is a principle that is used to decide between correct theories. Of these, the simplest is chosen. But one should not side with an incorrect theory because of its simplicity (and I have also expanded on this in my book Unstable Truth). And let the wise and wise know more…
And beyond all of this, the question is what Judaism is. Is every opinion expressed by a sage or sages, no matter how important, Judaism? In my view, Judaism or Torah are the word of God. Therefore, my arguments do not harm any part of Judaism, but rather focus on Judaism and try to remove from it what is not Judaism. This reminds me of Kobi Maydan’s regular segment on the radio (I think it’s called “This is what our sages said”), where I once heard him quote a quote from Amy Winehouse (from our sages). And pay close attention to all of this.
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Asks:
Hello and thank you, but I asked a different question.
There are points on the system of axes, and anyone who does not pass their graph through all the points cannot claim to have devised a theory.
Although there were great Jews who believed that God has a body, today it is universally accepted that this is not a Jewish opinion. Why? What is “universally accepted”? Blessed are the people who have ‘this’.
It is universally accepted that prayer is a central issue in Judaism. Those who read prayer pamphlets may be waiting a little longer and sinking a little deeper into the swamp of religious Zionism with the hyphen, but they are ‘deviating’ from the path of believing Judaism.
I apologize for the pompous language, but this has been accepted for generations, there is prayer and there is apologetics.
If you refuse the above, please write to me what are the points on the graph of your Judaism that whoever does not pass through their graph will present something correct but not Judaism.
Thank you and Happy New Year,
PS: What you wrote about Peres is also very true of our sages who often killed each other and often called each other derogatory nicknames, and ultimately created for us an idyll of “you and I in the end”, alas: complex judgment.
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Rabbi:
Belief in God, the giving of the Torah (or a portion) to Moses at Sinai, and the obligation to write in the Torah (to the point of commentary and sermon). In our day, we are also obligated to the Talmud (not because it is right but because we have taken it upon ourselves). That’s it.
What is accepted doesn’t really interest me unless that acceptance indicates that it came from Sinai or from an authoritative source. Blessed are the people who have “like this,” it is only true like this and not so arbitrary (the “like this” is a verb).
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