[Avodah] Must we agree with the Torah?

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Fri Aug 9 13:51:42 PDT 2013


On 9/08/2013 4:42 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
>> >This. Except not*because*  I trust that. I do trust that it makes sense,
>> >but the "naaseh" doesn't depend on that; we would do it even if we somehow
>> >knew that it didn't make sense...
> Personally, I wouldn't follow a god who insisted on things that don't
> make sense even to Him.

So "ilu nitztavinu lachtov eitzim" means we would decide that there must
be a reason why He needs us to do that?

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                        exercise his rights. The right's existence is all
                        the reason he needs.
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