It would have been more appropriate to write 42 (the meaning of existence).

Actually it’s 0%, because he asked for views that contradict all the sources, and it’s impossible for all the sources to line up with one opinion. So any opinion can contradict almost all the sources, but not all of them.

With God’s help, 12 Kislev 5783

You can check against Maimonides’ Thirteen Principles of Faith, which are based on the texts and agreed upon by everyone. Does the owner of the site accept the principle of reward and punishment, the eternity of the Torah, the World to Come, the coming of the Messiah, and the resurrection of the dead? By my calculation, that comes out to about 38% 🙂

Best regards, Immanuel Chai Kliningradsky Tor-Malka

And there was once a story about a priest who offered a Jew 10,000 rubles if he would convert to Christianity. The Jew asked: what do I have to believe? The priest answered: (a) that that man was born to Mary and that she was a virgin; (b) that he was crucified and rose from the dead; (c) that he divided one loaf of bread among thousands of people and they were all satisfied.

The Jew replied: give me 5,000 rubles and we’ll be partners. I’ll believe that he was born to Mary; you believe that she was a virgin. I’ll believe that he was crucified; you believe that he rose from the dead. I’ll believe that he divided one loaf of bread among thousands of people; you believe that they were all satisfied…

Maimonides’ principles of faith, at least as he formulated them, are not agreed upon by everyone. In fact, most of those who wave around those principles don’t really know what Maimonides’ position actually is, and in practice they deny every single principle. In fact, most kabbalists deny several of the principles. On the other hand, there are people who would even call themselves atheists, but in practice are closer to belief in those principles and even believe in all of them. Because what matters is not what things are called or how they are defined, but how they are grasped by the intellect. For one person God is a corporeal idol, and for another He is the Active Intellect. In actual fact / at the root of reality, it may be that both believe; only the definitions and words differ. Thus Plato’s idolatry is not the idolatry of most people of his time, for whom all the gods were in fact separate intellects. In fact, he is closer to the view of a significant portion of the medieval authorities than to the common paganism.