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On 10/30/2012 3:59 PM, Simon Montagu wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Lisa Liel <span
dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:lisa@starways.net"
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face="Arial">To have emunah is to be
convinced of the truth of something. Conviction and belief are two
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<div>Doesn't this make the question stronger? Belief perhaps you can
legislate, but how can you legislate conviction? Surely either you have
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Have you ever been convinced of one thing and then convinced of
something else instead? So you can change your convictions. If your
current knowledge base doesn't allow it, you need to expand it.<br>
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<div>BTW, "to have emunah is to be convinced of the truth of
something" is true for the Hebrew of the mediæval philosophers like the
Rambam, but not for Biblical Hebrew or Hazal. Emunah as in "tzaddik
be'emunato yihye" or "vayya'amen [Avraham] beHashem" is more like
"trust" or the Yiddish "bitochen".</div>
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I'm not sure I agree.<br>
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Lisa<br>
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