[Avodah] How to teach emuna

[Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer via Avodah]

Check out Pat Heil's blog. There are dozens of posts on topics just like 
this. A random place to start is:

http://pajheil.blogspot.com/2016/06/fact-checking-torah-wrapping-up-digs.html

I consider Pat a talmida of mine, since she has learned Yerushalmi with 
my recordings. :-)

KT,

YGB


On 8/9/2016 5:27 PM, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 05:11:14PM -0400, Zev Sero via Avodah wrote:
> : What makes you think that these ovdei AZ weren't also ovdei Hashem?  What
> : makes you think they weren't boki beshas (or its then equivalent)?  These
> : were *not* untraditional Jews.  They were active Jews who also worshipped
> : AZ, because they had a strong yetzer hara to do so.
>
> You mean like the guy who consecrated a potsherd to Havayah "and his
> consort, Asheirah", found among the material the Waqf bulldozed off
> Har haBayis? He may have worshipped a god named Y-HV-H, but to talk
> about him as a source of remembering matan Torah is a stretch.
>
> :> In Yoshiahu's day, the number of people who knew enough Torah to even
> :> recognize one when they found one was small enough to qualify as a cabal.
>
> : How do you know this?
>
> It took Barukh to recognize it.
>
> :> In Ezra's day, the masses had to relearn the the alphabet.
>
> : Where is this written?
>
> Sanhedrin 21b-22a. Shabbos 104a. Shakehechum vechazar veyasdum. Unless
> you hold like Mar Zutra/Uqva and R Yossi who says this was the first use
> of Ashuris for sta"m. (But both R' Sherira Gaon and R Hai Gaon reject R
> Yossi's position. And the third position, aside from being listed last,
> has the most names attached; pashut peshat is that it's the masqanah.
>
> -Micha
>