[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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