[Avodah] how do you teach emuna?

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 08/08/16 15:07, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> The point R' Moshe Benovitz was making in the snippet that was originally
> posted here was using "the Kuzari Principle" as an example of such
> an argument that won't hold water. The challenge is not that Tanakh
> implies a break in or a late start of mesorah (the topic Doros haRishonim
> addresses), but that it shows that at times the baalei mesorah were a
> minority, pushing a belief the masses did not share and were not being
> taught by their parents and grandparents, and yet they still managed to
> convince those masses on more than one occasion. Yoshiahu's and Ezra's
> revivals are two of the most famous counter-examples of the Kuzari
> Principle -- and they're from our own history!

Only if you accept the premise that Y and E introduced material that was
new to their audiences.   AIUI the traditional understanding is that they
simply led teshuvah revivals, getting people to return to obeying the Torah
that they already knew from their parents and grandparents.  And that the
sefer torah found in Yoshiahu's day was identical to the ones they already
had, and the fuss was because it was was Moshe Rabbenu's long-lost sefer,
and it was foundrolled to the tochacha.



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                        words `God can'.  Nonsense remains nonsense, even
                        when we talk it about God.   -- C S Lewis