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With God’s Help?

Question

Have a healthy week,
how does the Rabbi relate to Netanyahu’s “with God’s help”?
Attached:
https://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/431193

Answer

That he really does need God’s help.

Discussion on Answer

Benjamin Gorlin (2020-03-22)

According to your view, is there any point in hoping for God’s help?
Could the Rabbi expand a bit in order to clarify his position?
P.S. I’m completely confused.

Michi (2020-03-22)

Benjamin, I don’t understand what you want from me. A psychoanalytic analysis of Bibi? (Whether he believes or not?) My view about God’s help? I’ve already explained it ad nauseam.

K (2020-03-22)

Is the Rabbi saying this based on his synthetic a priori approach, that in order to come up with something that did not previously exist and cannot be inferred from any information in the world without an act of inference, one must believe in the existence of metaphysical things—for example ideas, or a spiritual information-world that is open to humanity, God, etc.?
But does the Rabbi hold the view of those who claim that a significant part of our information comes from God? Like those many thousands of scientists who say that information came to them almost prophetically, in a flash.

Michi (2020-03-22)

I didn’t understand a word, and especially not the connection to this thread. If there is a question in what you wrote, please open a new thread for it and explain what you mean.

Aharon (2020-03-22)

“Bibi used to come to me almost every Friday, and on one of those occasions he explained to me for close to two hours that there is no God, and that it’s a stupid invention,” Mana wrote on his Twitter account. “He took a pen and lifted it up and said: ‘This is God.’”

https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001011293

K (2020-03-22)

Rabbi, I meant according to the view of Prof. Benjamin Fine in his book The Poverty of Atheism, as I understand it.
Aharon,
why do you think one witness is more reliable than an admission by the litigant himself?
And there are lots of yeshiva students in various yeshivot who merit to “see” God through the door or the cola bottle, etc. . .
I don’t know what that means, but I heard about someone through a cola bottle, and I myself had the privilege of meeting a person who identifies Him through the door.

Rational (relatively) (2020-03-22)

Benjamin, your question is whether there is value to the statement of a person who is not a believer/an agnostic? (Or at the very least not religious, like Bibi.)
I think you understand that according to the Rabbi’s view, no. And I also think Bibi doesn’t attach as much weight to this statement as you do.
Why does he say it? Maybe there are moments when he has doubts and thinks that the existence of the Holy One, blessed be He, really is true. If you ask the Hasidim, according to them every Jew deep down really does believe, and this is apparently the stage when Bibi’s Jewish spark comes out. Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook of blessed memory might perhaps have called this part of the process of redemption. For a clarification of all the different approaches on the matter, I would actually recommend that you ask Rabbi S. Z. Levinger, may he live long, or open a thread in the responsa section of the Chabad website, because Michi’s approach on this issue is clear.

Benjamin Gorlin (2020-03-22)

Hello Rational (relatively), indeed my intention was to ask Rabbi Michi whether, according to his view, there is value to hoping for “God’s help.” I wanted to make sure that his answer really is negative…

Dedi (2020-03-22)

Benjamin, how is it that you turned anti-Haredi? After all, you’re from the Har Nof neighborhood, which is packed with Americans and people who cast religion in a radiant light and not a dark one, as is the custom of important kollel scholars.

Benjamin Gorlin (2020-03-22)

Dedi, “And it shall come to pass on that day, there shall not be light, but heavy clouds and thick darkness” — Zechariah 14:6

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