[Avodah] The Knowledge Conundrum

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HM:
> What does this say about Emunah Peshuta versus Emunah through rational
> thought?

A couple of thoughts juxtaposed...

Rabbi Sasha Picaric teaches in Teaneck. I suggested he do course on
moreh nevuchim

Then a Breslover friend warned me that Reb Nachman liked Rambam in
Halachah and opposed Chakira.

Kassuv hashlishi hamachria. Beineihem

Kuzari:
Emunah peshua (defined as al pi Mesorah) is best
Lechatchila

BUT
If one begins chakira then it is best to get Torah True stuff (perhaps
such as Kuzari itself and hovos halevavos etc.)

We just discussed in yesterday's daf about tleh that wanders needs more
shemira as per Rava as per Rav Chisda.

I quipped you can't keep the boy down in the farm after he's seen Paris
which is a WWI metaphor for once the doughboys have seen the world they
won't go back to the "nave life any more...

So lechatchila probably a simple approach is best.
However once one has been exposed (contaminated?) by intellectual chakira,
then a sophisticated approach is (probably) superior.

KT
RRW
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