[Avodah] No Supernatural of Incomprehensible Secrets

[Yitzchak Schaffer]

On Sep 3, 2010, at 15:11, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 02:51:06PM -0400, Prof. Levine wrote:
>> Lo nephlas he mimcha: [The Torah] does not deal with secrets that are
>> supernatural and incomprehensible to the human mind.
> 
> This, ... is daas yachid territory.
> (snip)
>    ... RYS rationalizes the mystical. It's the essence of his
>    derekh. E.g. we're in this world to refine the soul, but refining
>    the soul is in fully rationalistic, character-based, terms.
> 
>     

When I look at this RSRH again, I home in on the word incomprehensible. Chok definition aside, does he exclude all of the supernatural, or just the incomprehensible? If RYS is rational, perhaps they are not necessarily as far apart as this.

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Yitzchak