I didn’t understand. Why doesn’t the Rabbi accept this?

How do you know that in my view it’s impossible to command thought? Usually when I wrote that, I also explained it. Briefly: thought is usually about facts (providence, segulah, and the like). Facts are something you can persuade about, not command. After all, if I wasn’t convinced, what good would a command do? That I should say it with my mouth without accepting it in my heart?

By the way, I think I also explained this Maimonides passage here on the site, in a way that can be understood even according to my approach. Try searching the site.

“And not only with regard to idol worship is it forbidden to turn after it in thought; rather, any thought that causes a person to uproot one of the fundamentals of the Torah, we are warned not to bring into our hearts, and not to divert our attention to it, and to think and be drawn after the imaginings of the heart. For a person’s understanding is limited, and not every mind can attain the truth fully. And if every person were to be drawn after the thoughts of his heart, he would end up destroying the world according to the limitations of his understanding.”

These words contradict the quote from the Maharal that appears on the side of the site: “Even if the things are against his faith and religion.”

[Just noting that the writer “A” is not the first writer who started the thread. Sorry for the confusion that was created.]