<html><head><title>[Aspaqlaria] The Eilu vaEilu Paradox</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.aishdas.org/asp/wp-content/themes/twentyten/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /></head><body>Aspaqlaria has posted a new item, '<a href="http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2012/05/the-eilu-vaeilu-paradox.shtml">The Eilu vaEilu Paradox</a>'<br />
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<p>The notion of <em>eilu va’eilu</em> is taken by many to be quite literal — that two conflicting halachic opinions can both be equally correct, both equally truly representing the Will of G-d. This is a product of <em>halakhah</em> being a mapping from Hashem’s infinite Thought to human reality and/or His leaving us a process that has room for our creativity because that creativity is itself part of the redemptive process, etc…</p>
<p>Here’s the paradox… Say camp A holds that some limit X is involate, that people who deny X believe in heresy (albeit may not have the laws of a heretic). Camp B denies X, but has no similar red line that camp A crossed.</p>
<p>B is in the position of believing <em>eilu va’eilu </em>includes the truth of A’s approach to Torah — including the belief that B’s own approach isn’t true (isn’t within <em>eilu va’eilu</em>)? Paradox!</p>
<p>This comic presented a nice <em>mashal</em>, if you have some knowledge, even on the popularization level, of <a title="Wikipedia: Many-Worlds Interpretation of QM" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation" target="_blank">some of the odder hypotheses in physics</a>:</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 647px"><a href="http://abstrusegoose.com/457" target="_blank"><img class=" " title="Abstruse Goose: Many World Problem" src="http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/many_first_world_problem.png" alt="" width="637" height="484" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Abstruse Goose: Many World Problem</p></div><br />
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