[Avodah] Kabbalah vs Scholasticism

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 01:01:55PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
: >>>In contrast, the mystic's faith focuses on the incomprehensible.
...
:>Numerous chassidishe maiselakh including the am haaretz who asks HQBH to
:>weave his alef-beis into tefillos and the shepherd-boy playing his fluit.

: Where do you see mysticism in these stories?

They clearly laud the uncromprehended faith, and are used to teach even
those who have more comprehension that the value is in the emunah peshutah
in something incomprehensible. (I left my translation in the quoted text
to highlight the correspondence.)


Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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