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The hallucination in its embodiment

שו”תCategory: faithThe hallucination in its embodiment
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מיכי Staff answered 9 months ago

Indeed, a hallucination.

תלוי מה חשוב לך replied 9 months ago

Can the criticism of the "hallucination" be explained? A song has spread unusually widely among the faithful, and its central message contradicts basic things, and many, many children, boys, girls, and old people sing it to the innocent, and the message permeates. The song says that God will make sure that I will always have good and even better, and only good and good and good. In other words, whatever a person does, he is a son of a place, and the place will certainly influence him with great abundance. There is a cancellation of all aspiration here, contentment with mediocrity, almost uprooting the fear of heaven, an absurd perception of private providence, and the cultivation of hallucinations. In practice, it is almost certain that it affects the ministers who think to the innocent that if it is so widespread, then it is a reasonable and correct view. Is a collection of words with a few rhymes and a melody exempt from all criticism?

מיכי Staff replied 9 months ago

Not exempt from criticism at all. I too have criticism of the poem. But the reliance on the rabbinic authority and turning it into a prohibition because one cannot go against his words, which are like the mouth of a hero and other nonsense, is delusional. There is no halakhic question here and no binding instructions from the rabbinic authority. There are simple arguments here and they should have been stated. The form of reasoning and the discourse here are no less stupid than the poem.

תלוי replied 9 months ago

I also agree with the criticism of the reasoning.
Could you write a little about your criticism of the poem? Does it stem from your unique view of God's involvement in the world or without it?

מיכי Staff replied 9 months ago

Absolutely not. Even without my theory about divine involvement, this is a stupid, stupid poem. Unfortunately, although it embarrasses me, I plan to write about it in the next column, and it will be explained there.

אלי replied 9 months ago

I always thought that ultra-Orthodox rabbis don't bother with morality beyond what is written in the Torah because of a lack of time, because studying Torah and observing mitzvot require a lot of time.
Now that I see what they are busy with, I understand that it is not time that they lack.

דוד ש. replied 9 months ago

A column about “Even better”?!

It can't get any better than this.

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