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Comment on The Unobservable, the Unobserved, and the Observed by Jacob Farkas
 
Posted: 02 Nov 2006 12:28 PM CST
http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2006/10/the-unobservable-the-unobserved-and-the-observed.shtml#comment-99


Micha,

I used specific technologies to illustrate how certain technologies are part of the human experience today, and why Halakhah would shortchange todays generation if confined to the humanly experienceable. 

Rather than go in circles, I would like to conclude that:

a) I know of no evidence that Halakhah has that limitation (the experienceable).

b) I agree that Halakhah should and does not require people to borrow tools outside of the humanly experienceable. For both the etymological and theological reason you cited.

c) Future Halakhic decisors should use methods of verification to establish fact, outside of the extant methods known and practiced.

NB:

I was always uncomfortable with Yad Soledes Bo being translated to numeric values.




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Comment on The Unobservable, the Unobserved, and the Observed by micha
 
Posted: 02 Nov 2006 09:31 AM CST
http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2006/10/the-unobservable-the-unobserved-and-the-observed.shtml#comment-98


I disagree, I think because Im drawing a distinction between every tool available to establish truth, and the impact of technology on our lives such as flight, surgery, hurricane/earthquake warnings, GPS, Radio, etc.

I am not limiting halakhahs tools to establish truth, Im limiting halakhahs truth to that which shapes our personalities. Technology does. The unobservable realities about how the technology works, even when we know them intellectually, dont.

There is a reason why even astronomers think about a beautiful sunset, rather than relating that experience to the common knowledge that the sun isnt setting, the earth is spinning the other way. The sunset experience is what shapes our personalities, what causes us to better walk before Me and be whole. Im suggesting that halakhah therefore addresses the experience even though we all acknowledge intellectually that Copernicus was right about what causes that experience.

The notion is grounded in the linguistics and the a priori idea that halakhahs role is to shape a person and thus should relate to experience, not ontology. The fact that this frees us from worrying about changes in science on many (but not all) issues of law is a pleasant consequence.

-mi




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