<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Lisa Liel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lisa@starways.net" target="_blank">lisa@starways.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><font size="-1"><font face="Arial">To have emunah is to be
convinced of the truth of something. Conviction and belief are two
different concepts.</font></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Doesn't this make the question stronger? Belief perhaps you can legislate, but how can you legislate conviction? Surely either you have it or you don't?</div>
<div><br></div><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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