Q&A: An Incorrect Image — In the Context of the Third Path
An Incorrect Image — In the Context of the Third Path
Question
Hello Rabbi Michael,
Sorry in advance, because as I’ve already understood, you don’t like dealing with “Rabbi Michi” — but it matters, for the sake of truth, to know who you really are, so that the correct definitions that I agree with for the most part can succeed, based on what I heard from you in the “Spoken Haredi” interview.
What am I referring to?
There is an image that keeps recurring on the site, that Rabbi Michi does not believe in reward and punishment, nor in the resurrection of the dead, etc. — and these things are denied by you, if I’m not mistaken — and if I’m not mistaken, then it is important to emphasize this, because for people who were raised on the Thirteen Principles of Faith, a transition to the third definition in the Third Path cannot happen, and the chances are almost zero, if there are changes there in matters of belief; that is bound to fail.
Because in my humble opinion (as a Haredi), Haredi society needs the change, without branding everyone who changes as “light.”
If I’m mistaken, then of course that is simply not the case.
Thank you in advance
Answer
There is no connection at all between my theological views and the Third Path, and there is no connection between either of those and being “light.”
My personal view is that the position regarding principles such as these depends on the question of whether they came down through the tradition from Sinai or were invented over the generations. Some of them seem reasonable to me, but even what is reasonable cannot be a binding principle (see Raavad, Laws of Repentance, on corporealization).