[Avodah] Assur to be Stupid...

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:27:54AM +0200, Daniel Eidensohn wrote:
: I remember seeing an article or hearing a tape of RYBS in which he 
: stated that the Jews sacrificed their minds on the altar of Sinai.
: 
: He was saying that there is now a limit to the range of thought and 
: questions that can be asked...

That's stronger than I understood his intent.

RYBS was wont to knock on the desk or microphone three times as a
mnemonic for the idea of submission. We can have all our rationales --
we can ask the questions and propose answers -- but none of that can
change our observance. At some point, we have to live with hte question
or table it for later, because halakhah comes before logic. I saw him
as speaking of submission to halakhah, not to ideas.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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