Q&A: The Secret That Was Revealed
The Secret That Was Revealed
Question
Hello Rabbi,
What is the Rabbi’s opinion regarding:
1. Those who say that today there is a correspondence between Kabbalah and science, and that this is proof of the truth of Kabbalah.
2. Evil in the world—does the Rabbi lean toward Maimonides’ view, according to which a person can harm another without God’s will {he was not under providence, etc.}, or is the Rabbi closer to the view that everything is from God, or to a third opinion?
3. Is the fact that we do not understand quantum theory {I don’t know what it is, except that light behaves both as a wave and as a particle} proof of the existence of God?
4. Why does the regularity that exists in nature and in mathematics not cause many physicists to repent?
Thank you very much,
Ayal
Answer
1. Nonsense. There is no correspondence at all aside from a few cute homiletic quips.
2. I am close to the view of the Talmud (Chagigah 5), according to which it is possible. I have elaborated in many places about human evil in the world.
3. Wow, the Holy One, blessed be He, really is all-powerful. Look how many billions of people do not understand Newtonian mechanics, and many other things too. Which shows the existence of God in an even more exalted way.
4. Various reasons. But it’s worth asking them.
Discussion on Answer
No. That one. Rabbeinu Chananel does not disagree with him, but rather explains the Talmud’s conclusion differently.
Could you please explain more which conclusion you mean?
Ah, I see there is a discussion in column 659 that I hadn’t read. I’ll read it and come back.
Could the Rabbi give examples of contradictions between science and Kabbalah?
No. I don’t think there are contradictions, and not correspondences either. Just cheap little homiletic quips.
2. According to the Talmud’s view there—that is, from the words of the amora Rav Beivai bar Abaye—it seems that it is not possible, and Rabbeinu Chananel there disagrees with him. Or perhaps you meant a different detail.