Q&A: On the sidelines of your debate with Yaron
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On the sidelines of your debate with Yaron
Question
Hello Rabbi,
I listened to your debate with Yaron Yadan. It raised two small questions for me:
I have a few questions.
Q1) In your opinion, why did God give us moral intuitions and not religious ones?
Q2) In the debate you joked about the “destruction of higher worlds” as a result of Sabbath desecration. What do you actually think about the result of desecrating the Sabbath? If someone lights a candle on the Sabbath, do you think something will happen in the non-physical world?
Answer
- I have no idea. I suggest asking Him. Maybe because our intuitions relate to our world and not to other worlds or to the Holy One, blessed be He, Himself.
- I have no idea. I do assume that it has some kind of purpose. I wasn’t joking about it; I just used it as a metaphor.
Discussion on Answer
One can say that.
Thank you very much. If I take your first answer and continue one more step, one could say that a holy person—holy in the sense that he has developed the non-physical part within him—does in fact touch other worlds, and therefore has religious intuitions. And perhaps that is what is called divine inspiration.