[Avodah] emuna and seichel

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Thu Dec 29 14:10:42 PST 2011


On 29/12/2011 11:13 AM, Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org wrote:
>
> _http://onthisandonthat.blogspot.com/2011/12/sacred-nonsense.html_to achieve ideal emuna, must one set aside seichel?

Set aside, not abandon.  Because one must have yedi`ah as well as
emunah.  Ideally yedi`ah helps emunah, by giving one logical reasons
to set ones seichel aside.  But yes, ultimately if one accepts only
because it makes sense, then when it stops making sense one will stop
accepting.  And in the end it *will* stop making sense, if only because
one reaches the limits of ones brain's physical capacity.


-- 
Zev Sero        "Natural resources are not finite in any meaningful
zev at sero.name    economic sense, mind-boggling though this assertion
                  may be. The stocks of them are not fixed but rather
		 are expanding through human ingenuity."
		                            - Julian Simon



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