Question

A thought occurred to me following an objection from the siyum.
 
And maybe I’ve also talked about this a few times. Actually, precisely the approach of truth rather than certainty—the assumption that we cannot attain certainty about a matter—could lead to fundamentalism?.
If all the conclusions we draw are probably correct—such as the existence of God, the revelation at Mount Sinai, the obligation to keep the commandments, and the like—but are not certain, then the conclusions we draw that the values of modernity, at least some of them, probably do not contradict the will of the Holy One, blessed be He—those too are conclusions that are probably correct but not certain.
 
And perhaps for that reason it could be that the fundamentalist approach is much more God-fearing—precisely because they admit that it is impossible to know what the will of the Holy One, blessed be He, is. We are left only with His commands. And in order not to take a risk, we simply need to observe Jewish law in its original form, lest, Heaven forbid, we err and it turn out that we rebelled against the One who spoke and brought the world into being.