[Avodah] Religion and Falsifiability

[david guttmann]

RDR said:

>If I can translate, RMB says it would make him question, not the Torah, but
how we implement it today. 

 

Not necessarily. See the introduction to pirush Hamishna of the Rambam (page
23 in the Kapach edition) where he already asked the question (my
paraphrase) - Being HKBH did not create anything in vain and being that
under the moon man is the most prominent, and being that the goal of
humankind is to understand Muskalot why then did HKBH  create all these
people that do not understand a Muskal? We see that most people are without
knowledge pursuing bodily satisfaction and the perfect individual is rare? 

His famous twofold answer follows :All people exist to prepare the
environment and serve the few Ovdei Hashem and second to keep company to the
few savants. ( I interpret the second as a population that will
statistically provide  the few intelligent people - but that is my forced
interpretation in that Rambam).

If not for the Yeshivot and their followers there would not be the few Bnei
Aliyah that are out there. Elef nichnessu lebeit hamidrash ve'echad yatza
lehora'a.

 Could it be  better? Was it better at other times? Yes and probably. Lately
I have been reading about the Kehilot in Provence in the 13th and 14th
centuries and they seemed to have  had a quite sophisticated community with
the simple people much more advanced and serious. Read Meiri, Ralbag, Malmad
Hatalmidim, Livyat chen etc... The Kehilot were destroyed by Machloket and
Galut. (see Teshuvat Harashba and the response of r. Yedayah HaPenini and
Minchat Kenaot by R. Aba Mari at the end of the SHUT Harashba Dimitrovsky
edition).


David Guttmann
 
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