[Avodah] Kabbalah vs Scholasticism

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:
> 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.)

But they're about what the am ha'aretz can achieve ba'asher hu sham;
not about deliberately seeking such ignorance.  The Baal Shem Tov came
to remind the TC that the AH is also a yid, not to tell the AH that he
shouldn't bother trying to become a TC if he can, and certainly not to
tell the TC to deliberately forget his learning and emulate the AH.

These stories demonstrate that rachmana liba ba'i, just like the
medrash about the poor man contributing his vegetables to coax the rich
man's bull up the stairs of the Har Habayit; nobody would suggest that
next time the rich man shouldn't bother with the bull and should give
some vegetables instead!

I have a feeling that we're not disagreeing, but that I just don't
understand what you wrote.

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