<div class="userEdit" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">In Avodah Digest, Vol 43, Issue 72 dated 12/2/2025</span>
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<div dir="ltr">From: "Jay F. Shachter" <<a href="mailto:jay@m5.chicago.il.us">jay@m5.chicago.il.us</a>></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Subject: [Avodah] Normal People Don't Care About Those Things</div>
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<div dir="ltr">>>Normal people don't care about beliefs. Normal people care about</div>
<div dir="ltr">observable behavior. Reality is that which can be seen and felt.</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">..... The part of Judaism that</span></div>
<div dir="ltr">cares about abstract beliefs that do not manifest themselves in</div>
<div dir="ltr">observable behavior is entirely post-Biblical.<<</div>
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<div class="userEdit" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">>>>></span></div>
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<div class="userEdit" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">Dovid Hamelech wrote >>Amar naval belibo, ein Elokim a degenerate says in his heart, there is no G-d<< (Tehillim 14:1).<br></span></div>
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<div class="userEdit" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">Sefer Tehillim is not post-Biblical.</span></div>
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<div class="userEdit" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">The idea that the Torah does not care about beliefs is a 19th century Reform canard.</span></div>
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