tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post5881025344637405528..comments2023-09-11T17:58:13.764-04:00Comments on The Rebbetzin's Husband: Faith vs. Intellect?The Rebbetzin's Husbandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14977193945074906534noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-43004714836165810522011-06-13T13:32:50.852-04:002011-06-13T13:32:50.852-04:00Some academicians have been known to search for gr...Some academicians have been known to search for grants and prestige, but not so much for truth. Often, their un-pristine motivations and well-cooked results are revealed, whereupon their equally guilty colleagues trash the revealers. <br /><br />Sometimes, pseudo-analytically debunking beliefs and practices of traditional Judaism has been the cheap path to fame. This debunking can be done ever so self-righteously by those skilled in the art. <br /><br />Other academicians are the real deal, though. We ought to be smart enough to tell the good from the bad.Bob Millernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-55901728494519171982011-06-12T19:33:01.048-04:002011-06-12T19:33:01.048-04:00Shmuel-
I have not.
Anonymous 5:23 PM-
In Rav Koo...Shmuel-<br />I have not.<br /><br />Anonymous 5:23 PM-<br />In Rav Kook, and in the particular context of this paragraph, I'd say it's meant to refer to intellectual analysis rather than 'computer power'.The Rebbetzin's Husbandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14977193945074906534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-62926596005094901942011-06-12T17:23:37.102-04:002011-06-12T17:23:37.102-04:00(from anonymous #2) Rebbetzin's husband, I tho...(from anonymous #2) Rebbetzin's husband, I thought the words "מוכשר למחקר שכלי" essentially meant "very smart" in english, but I am sure that I miss nuances in hebrew meaning all the time.<br /><br />Shmuel --you are probably right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-27101358959456059952011-06-12T15:00:42.901-04:002011-06-12T15:00:42.901-04:00Anon no.2, you can just as easily posit that Rav L...Anon no.2, you can just as easily posit that Rav Lichtenstien (as well as others) personify the ideal balance that Rav Kook referrs to at the end of the excerpt? <br />While the natural tendency is toward an inverse relationship, the "happy medium" would be the equilibrium between the two.<br /><br />Reb's Hub - have you seen Iggrot haRAYaH: Gevul Chofesh haDe'ut?Shmuelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08623549507370220071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-76925510662007081012011-06-12T12:03:10.753-04:002011-06-12T12:03:10.753-04:00Anonymous 2:41 AM-
Strong assertion. Is that an ar...Anonymous 2:41 AM-<br />Strong assertion. Is that an article of faith for you, or the product of intellectual analysis?<br /><br />Anonymous 10:20 AM-<br />Why equate "smart" with "intellectual analysis"? I know many people I consider smart, who aren't particularly analytic.The Rebbetzin's Husbandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14977193945074906534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-89798346448175414882011-06-12T10:20:38.039-04:002011-06-12T10:20:38.039-04:00I disagree with anonymous, but I also don't se...I disagree with anonymous, but I also don't see an inverse relationship between intellect and faith --I know both very smart and not so smart people on both ends of the faith spectrum. One only needs to look at someone like Rav Lichtenstein shlit"a (there are doubtless other examples and I am not purposefully leaving anyone out, just giving an example I am familiar with) to see a person of great, great faith with tremendous intellectual gifts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-41273060544988991982011-06-12T02:41:42.221-04:002011-06-12T02:41:42.221-04:00"Human frailty causes a person who is gifted ..."Human frailty causes a person who is gifted in intellectual analysis to have a weaker inclination toward faith"<br /><br />That's just wrong. The reason "a person who is gifted in intellectual analysis" doesn't have faith is because faith is dumb and religions aren't true.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com