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[Moshe Y. Gluck]

R' ZS:
<SNIP>  What exactly is
difficult about believing that the Anshei Knesses Hagdolah saw a piece
of paper fall from heaven?  Again I come back to the basic question: are
we Jews or Protestants?  Do we believe that there is a Higher World and
there are miracles or not?  What kind of Jew believes such things to be
impossible?
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To elaborate upon R' Zev's question: If we believe in Hashem, we have
already suspended our belief in a purely rational world. If that is so -
that we are allowing the supernatural into our life - then why should it
bother us to allow more of it into our life - admitting, for example, the
possibility of a Piska falling from heaven? Why should we confine our belief
in the supernatural to the miracles explicit in the Torah and in the
previously mentioned Mishnah in Avos?

In other words, to a rationalist who believes in the supernatural, it is not
rational to limit that belief.

KT,
MYG