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[Prof. Levine]

At 03:02 PM 6/26/2011, Moshe Y. Glick wrote:

>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?
>-----------------------
>
>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.

I have more than once written about what R. A. Miller told me 
regarding literally believing stories that seem to defy logic. He 
said, "Our minds are strained enough by what we have to believe, To 
add anything more to this is not wise."  YL
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