[Avodah] how do you teach emuna?

[Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer via Avodah]

On 8/2/2016 10:10 PM, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote:
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> My personal belief is that Hashem designed the world in precisely this 
> way, lacking any unassailable proofs, so as to insure bechira 
> chofshis, which would not be possible if any truly unassailable proof 
> were publicized.

> As to the question posed by the subject line - "how do you teach 
> emuna?" - my own method is "by example". By remarking to those around 
> me about the Niflaos HaBorei, it is my hope that my emunah will be 
> contagious.

If you are looking for "proof" you will not find it.

Evidence, you will find aplenty.

You yourself make that point in your last paragraph!


[Email #2]

There are no cogent arguments against intelligent design properly 
understood. Conversely, while this is not a popular position to take in 
our day, there are no cogent arguments for abiogenesis. Yahadus qua 
Yahadus is, indeed, more complicated - but possesses ample arguments as 
well.


[Email #3]

On 8/4/2016 4:30 PM, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> I think emunah has to start with the heart. When someone gets a question
> they cannot answer, they could assume there is none and their emunah is
> weakened ch"v. Or, they could shelve the question -- so confident in th
> emunah that they assume an answer exists and hope to sfind out what it
> is someday.
>
> The difference between the two responses is whether their experience
> with Yahadus engenders that confidence.
>
> In general, deductive proofs are built up logically from a set of
> self-evident postulates. However, when not dealing with sensory input,
> what makes those postulates self-evident?

While RMB has some objections (not-yet-enunciated) to the R' Noah 
Weinberg Lakewood Tapes that I love, RNW would call this the "ta'amu 
u're'u key tov Hashem" evidence of God's existence.

KT,
YGB