Q&A: Yeshayahu Leibowitz and Human Cognition
Yeshayahu Leibowitz and Human Cognition
Question
Hello Rabbi!
How does Leibowitz argue that everything depends on a person's religious-faith decision in questions such as: whether to recognize his obligation to accept the yoke of the Kingdom of Heaven? Whether to acknowledge value X?
After all, one could learn from this that I, a mere insignificant person, limited and finite, actually create God, and without me He has nothing. If I do not recognize God, then He does not exist.
Thank you in advance.
Answer
I didn't understand this logical leap. If I don't study physics, I won't know physics. So is the conclusion that there is no physics? Or rather that physics is the result of my studying it, which creates it? Obviously I make my own decisions, not the Holy One, blessed be He. Why does that mean I invented Him? Where did this nonsense come from?