[Avodah] How to teach emuna

[Marty Bluke via Avodah]

R' Efraim Yawitz wrote:
"My whole point was that the "Kuzari Principle" at its most basic level is
only about a shared history rather than specifics of religious belief.  I
see nowhere in Tanach that at any point
there was a difference of opinion about the beginnings of Am Yisrael, only
about what that obligated the individual in."

Actually if you look in Tanach the revelation at Sinai is basically ignored
until Nechemia. The Neviim while mentioning yetzias mitzrayim never mention
matan torah at Har Sinai when exhorting the people to follow Hashem and not
worship Avoda Zara. Yirmiyah, Yeshaya, Yechezkel, who gave constant mussar
to the Jewish people to follow Hashem and the laws never once say to the
Jewish people remember Matan Torah at Har Sinai and keep the mitzvos. It
seems that this was not the foundational event that the Kuzari proof claims
it was.
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