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another Jew out there trying to help as many people as i can b4 leaving this fleeting world
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May 9 |
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simple faith versus blind faith @Kordovero would you say this leans towards blind faith? |
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May 8 |
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Why is Sha'ar Ha'Yichud of Chovos Ha'Levavos so “controversial”? and we have permitted ourselves to delve in the sea of investigation in order to clarify through logic the existence of G-d, to affix faith in Him in our hearts, in addition to the faithful tradition of our torah. We have already attained an understanding of a logical proof of this, through which, out of love for Him, we can fix in our hearts" END OF TOV HALEVANON COMMENTARY ch.7 in beginning of "3rg argument" that God is one |
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May 8 |
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Why is Sha'ar Ha'Yichud of Chovos Ha'Levavos so “controversial”? the intent of the shaar yichud is not to place belief of G-d on science but only to SUPPLEMENT one's faith with proofs to strengthen it as written in the Tov Halevanon ch.7: Tov Halevanon: The scientist/investigator, from the role he assumes as investigator, it is his way to believe only that which he has clarified through logical proofs. While the "believer", who believes that which has not been clarified to himself through logical proofs, has already gone out of the role of "scientist/investigator" and has no business debating with them. And now that we are here today, |
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May 8 |
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Why is Sha'ar Ha'Yichud of Chovos Ha'Levavos so “controversial”? deceives, and one can picture and think in his imagination also on impossible things. The Kuzari says in treatise 5 section 18: "it is within the power of the mind to consider thousands, and thousands of thousands multiplied over endlessly, this is in potential, but for this to come to the realm of actual - no", see there |
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May 8 |
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Why is Sha'ar Ha'Yichud of Chovos Ha'Levavos so “controversial”? "Actually infinite" is a quote from the shaar yichud not from me. this is exactly my point. the "refutation of Hawkings" assumes the shaar yichud is bringing a mathematical proof. Whereas the shaar yichud says "actually infinite" specifically to negate this. Marpe Lenefesh commentary in ch.5: (on the words if we consider in our thoughts): This means that the thing to consider is actually infinite, but for something which is not actually infinite but is just theoretical, that the mind imagines something infinite - from this one cannot bring a proof, because the power of imagination |
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May 8 |
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Why is Sha'ar Ha'Yichud of Chovos Ha'Levavos so “controversial”? all sorts of infinities but as the commentaries point out there, that the mind can conceive all sorts of things which are not possible. "ACTUALLY INFINITE" means in the real world not in mathematical abstractions. |
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May 8 |
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Why is Sha'ar Ha'Yichud of Chovos Ha'Levavos so “controversial”? @DoubleAA who said 19th century?? see the link Chanoch cited: it quotes Hawkings there: "Chovot HaLevavot's Shaar HaYichud is incorrect in its mathematical proof of God's unity In chapter 5, he introduces 3 mathematical propositions on which he rests his proof. One of these propositions is that "That the infinite should have parts is inconceivable. ... Let us assume that a thing is actually infinite..." Hawkings is making a false assumption that this is a "mathematical proof". The commentaries point out that the author used "actually infinite" to negate this. Yes in math u can have |
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May 8 |
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Why is Sha'ar Ha'Yichud of Chovos Ha'Levavos so “controversial”? another answer to Hawking's mistake is that the author did not mean to say mathematically that one infinity cannot be greater than another infinity but rather as the Marpe Lenefesh commentary there says: "If we were able to take out a finite part from something infinite then perforce it must be composed of two opposite natures - finite and infinite, and this is an impossibility" |
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May 8 |
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Why is Sha'ar Ha'Yichud of Chovos Ha'Levavos so “controversial”? you cannot make something of infinite character from something of finite character. since the whole is the sum of its parts. and to have infinite finite parts is a mathematical abstraction which is impossible in actual practice. we see from this answer the danger of learning shaar yichud. |
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May 8 |
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Why is Sha'ar Ha'Yichud of Chovos Ha'Levavos so “controversial”? correction: Hawkings says it is incorrect. hawkings is using mathematical proofs which dont hold in real practice. in mathematics, the mind can suppose all sorts of things which are not possible in actuality. for example, there are an infinite number of points between 1 and 2 therefore something can be finite yet have infinite parts. answer: false - a point is not a part since it is infinitely small. it is just a mathematical abstraction with no basis in reality. likewise, the supposed "infinite integer set" hawkings is supposing is just a mathematical abstraction. continued: |
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May 7 |
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Why is Avraham's monotheism not mentioned in the torah? @DoubleAA Judaism believes in monotheism from the shema. dont think anyone an argue with that. Now, avraham was chosen as the progenitor of judaism by God since he kept all of Judaism as in the above verse. So obviously he must have kept its cornerstone also. |
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