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my father asked 4 months ago

To Rabbi MA, greetings.
I will briefly state that I do not generally believe in miracle stories told by rabbis or religious and spiritual figures of this or that kind. The reason I do not believe is intuitive at its core and I have no evidence for this. I mainly rely on the "rule of the one who cites his author, the evidence is on him," but since I live around people who mostly believe in the above, I often hear miracle stories from every possible direction, and yet my heart is still torn by these stories, again, for no real reason. Since I have been following you for a long time, I know that you also think more or less the same way.
My question is, do you think that in the end, even though every story can be explained in one way or another, in the end it is very strange that there are so many stories about this matter, and perhaps the very fact that there are so many stories proves the possibility that it is indeed possible?
In addition, I am interested in hearing testimony from a person (not necessarily someone you know) who was in the same room and saw such and such, would you change your mind about the miracles? Since I know your style of giving very brief answers on these subjects (not in a disparaging way) – I will not leave my question general and will give an example from the last few days: I was recently with a friend whose grandmother was a cleaner at Baba Sali's house and she told me herself that she saw a case in which a man in a wheelchair came to Baba Sali and Baba Sali ordered him to get up and he got up from his chair and started walking as if he had never been disabled. If you heard this testimony yourself, would you believe it, and if not, why?

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Michi Staff answered 4 months ago

I am skeptical of any such story, but I cannot categorically rule it out. The evidence I would require to accept it is very strong, and the testimony of such a person is not strong enough. People invent, take things out of context, do not understand statistics, embellish stories (sometimes intentionally and sometimes accidentally) about great people (for some this is ideology. Holy lies). In general, what is said from memory is difficult to trust. It deceives us greatly.

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