[Avodah] Eilu v'eilu

[Rich, Joel via Avodah]

> Question: If one doesn’t view eilu v’eilu as multiple truths
> but rather one truth and one nice try (but we don’t know which
> is which), ...

You've lost me. Doesn't the grammar and definition of the words "eilu v'eilu" imply that the two things under discussion are equal? I just can't wrap my brain around a way to translate "eilu v'eilu" where one is truth and the other isn't.

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See here  https://kavvanah.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/rav-soloveitchik-religious-definitions-of-man-and-his-social-institutions-part-1of-7-1958/ for a general approach (especially "Part III- Rav Soloveitchik’s God
 In Judaism, God himself is the hidden God, Jal Mistatar – unknowable and unknown. The Jewish experience of God (shared by other religions is antithetic, a polarity. it has both remoteness and intimate closeness. How is that possible? Judaism does not use Aristotelian logic of excluded middle. Unlike classic physic, modern physics uses both waves and particles; modern physics does not use Aristotle. God is both remote and close- in our encounter we are bewildered and comforted. Since Creation is also revelation, the every tree also incomprehensible strange. "
And here for some more specifics:
http://nishma.org/articles/commentary/slifkinrevisted3print.pdf
  especially starting around page 11.


KT
Joel Rich (who still can't really understand the double slit experiment, yet it's there)
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