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  Elie -9 years ago

  Rabbi J, can you please post a link or the name of the NYT article you mentioned about science today revealing HKB"Hs creation. Yasher Koach, as always, the best shiurim from R YYJ !

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  Nuchem -9 years ago

  here is a question i asked rabbi Jacobson, and the answer about Emuneh

  The Question:

  I have one question on amineh
  From where comes the concept of amineh peshuta not to dig in and explore these topics
  Where does it come from
  When did it started
  And what U think if it's right or wrong

  It
  really bothers me seeing people that have no clue what's going on but
  when u start talking about God and amineh first respond is we don't do
  these things we have amineh peshutah

  Answer of Rabbi Jacobson:

  For
  many hundreds of years this has been a debate in Jewish history. In the
  13th and 14th century there was, for example, a raging debate between
  two trends in the Jewish community, particularly the Jews from Spain vs.
  the Jews from Germany. The former delved into philosophy, the latter
  shunned it. It is a well known chapter in our history. The Ashkenazim
  often stressed the need for emunah -- the simple conviction and faith in
  Hashem and His Torah.

  This is not the place to elaborate so much on the topic, but I do want to state this:

  Emunah
  Peshtah, in its purest form, is now inferior to philosophy; it
  transcends it. Sure, there is an emunah that is cult-like,
  unintelligent, blind and threatened by any rational exchange of ideas.
  But that is not the "emunah peshutah" of Yidishkeit. Emunah Peshutah is
  the emunah that is far deeper and more real than intellect, stemming
  from the soul of the Jew which "sees" and "experiences" the reality of
  the Divine, since the soul is essentially a "fragment of the Divine."

  The
  Midrash Rabah states on the verse "a fool believes everything" -- that
  it refers to Moshe. How can we say this? Because in relation to the
  Divine essence, even Moshe is a "fool," in the sense that logic and
  brilliance will not get him any closer to touch and experience that
  truth. This is where emunah comes in.

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  Yitzchok -9 years ago

  BS"D
  There is a negative command to learn avodah Zara, so we are concerned about learning intellect

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