[Avodah] Does emunah require more than pure rationality?

Joel Rich joelirarich at mail.gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 17:44:13 PDT 2025


>From hakira:
In your experience, does emunah require more than pure rationality?

R. Schachter: Yes. just as rationality is enough for the fact that George
Washington was the president of the United States. It is basic history.
Similarly, our people know this (the ikkarei emunah) from our historica
historical tradition. The experiential aspect (as discussed above), of
ley-da of hitabrut , makes one's emunah even stronger. But even without the
historical tradition, rationality alone is sufficient

Thoughts?

KVCT
Joel Rich
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