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שאל לפני 3 שנים

Hello Rabbi,
I was exposed to your philosophy two years ago (I'm in 12th grade now) and I really enjoyed it at first. It sharpened my thinking and it was pure intellectual pleasure. But after I saw that God had left the earth, my whole world collapsed. A sickening skepticism began to wash over me. Thoughts of what's the point of living in the world if there is no law and no judge and everything is random. I began to lose faith in myself and my life. Now, from what I know from your writing, you don't really care about psychological/existential problems, but I would love to know what you think. I saw that you don't deny that it's possible sporadically. I also saw once (I can't find it right now) that you sent something that Rabbi Kook wrote and said that it was close to your opinion. Could you send it again?
 
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Hello Yosef. A few comments. 1. I don't remember a passage by Rabbi Kook, but why would it help you? 2. If you think differently, then the fact that I believe something does not obligate you. 3. If the skepticism is about the involvement of God in the world, I don't see what the problem is. Even if He does not intervene, one must do the truth because He is truth (Rambam, beginning of chapter 10, Mahalal Teshuvah). This is the correct path, so why does it matter if He is involved? Chazal also said that the reward of a mitzvah is the same as the reward of a mitzvah. 4. The religious-halakhic path is the correct one, it also allows us to be rational and act rationally, which is not possible in a secular-atheistic world. So it is both the truth and what makes a better feeling. What's wrong?! 5. An adult needs to free themselves from the assumptions that were instilled in them in childhood and form a worldview for themselves. They can and should also free themselves from momentary dependence on God, just as they are freed from dependence on their parents. Inventing for themselves a thesis of divine involvement in the world just to provide a solution to the childish distress of the need for dependence is exactly what I call freeing ourselves from it. We are adults and we have the authority and responsibility for our actions and what happens to us (which, of course, is not always in our hands. It is unpleasant, but it is the truth and no invention will change this).

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