[Avodah] Where Bread Comes From
rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com
rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com
Wed Apr 22 07:36:30 PDT 2009
> I'd suggest reading the Rambam at the beginning of hilchot avodah Zara
> as to how avodah Zara was started by some well meaning folks.
> To paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke's famous insight (Any sufficiently
> advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic),Any sufficiently
> advanced mnemonic for bitachon is indistinguishable from superstition
> Joel Rich
Perhaps that's why yekkes and other misnagdim pushed qabbalah and
qabbalistic practices underground.
Not that they were intrinsically wrong for the sophisticate; but a mar'is
ayyin issue for the "amcha"
KT
RRW
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