Q&A: The Book Fantaziyadut
The Book Fantaziyadut
Question
I’m nearing the end of Moshe Rat’s new book, Fantaziyadut.
I assume the Rabbi has heard of the book (and perhaps has also read it).
I’d be happy to know what the Rabbi thinks about the arguments (or hypotheses) in the book.
I’m asking because by nature I have a Maimonidean and rationalist approach (my mind works overtime—much more than my emotions), but in the book Moshe Rat changes the whole picture and apparently pulls the ground out from under the rationalist approach, if such ground exists at all. And I find myself asking what I would answer to these claims, and what I think about them.
Thank you,
Answer
I’m not familiar with the book (although Rabbi Moshe Rat is my student), and if you want to discuss it, post a specific question (!) on the site. In general, I do not agree with part of Rabbi Moshe’s style of argumentation, which undermines rationalism and presents alternatives that are not plausible (in my view) in order to defend faith. In my opinion, that kind of argument throws out the baby with the bathwater: you can’t defend a thesis by undermining our thinking. Thinking is what is supposed to defend the theses we adopt.