tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4519695949645288674.post7643403281283220748..comments2012-02-22T06:44:21.775-08:00Comments on PHILOSOPHY OF JUDAISM: Religious Belief, Make-believe and ScienceAaron Segal, Sam Lebens, Dani Rabinowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12072138513573624712noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4519695949645288674.post-19835898006691333962011-12-06T05:46:59.341-08:002011-12-06T05:46:59.341-08:00Have you published the book on Rav Hirsch’s Ninete...Have you published the book on Rav Hirsch’s Nineteen Letters and if so where is it available? I would like to read it.Benjinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4519695949645288674.post-75290083449864952442011-07-27T02:36:21.956-07:002011-07-27T02:36:21.956-07:00Thanks Meir Simcha.
This was something that I wond...Thanks Meir Simcha.<br />This was something that I wondered about too.<br />I have only included this as something of an appendix to the book, in the name, firstly, of intellectual honesty. The other thing is that I think that to know that Judaism isn't necessarily asking you to believe all that much about history and science, but that it's asking you to look at the world in a certain waySam Lebenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11232919028270795728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4519695949645288674.post-85768247644233610012011-07-26T08:21:36.656-07:002011-07-26T08:21:36.656-07:00Sam, thank you! Great ideas! I took many notes for...Sam, thank you! Great ideas! I took many notes for myself.<br /><br />I wonder though if this should be including in your rewriting of 19 Letters. As you said, "if a poem kept reminding you that it was just a poem, it might lose a great deal of its poetic power." Perhaps it's important to include it, in the interests of intellectual honesty, or befriending the skeptical reader, or mShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15475893538338098541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4519695949645288674.post-82736493985189513242011-07-20T05:14:40.672-07:002011-07-20T05:14:40.672-07:00Thanks a lot for this. I feel a bit self-conscious...Thanks a lot for this. I feel a bit self-conscious about this article, so it was nice to hear such positive feedback.<br /><br />1. You're right. I think arguing for God's existence borders on sacrilegious, merely because, if you're a person of faith, you feel his existence so often and so profoundly, that a logical argument almost undermines the immediacy of religious experience. ButSam Lebensnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4519695949645288674.post-66641157510621383652011-07-19T15:43:56.093-07:002011-07-19T15:43:56.093-07:00This is excellent and excellently written. This de...This is excellent and excellently written. This deserves careful study, but I have two minor points after a first read:<br /><br />1. There’s no need to insist that Judaism “cannot be argued for”, that any attempt is “sacrilegious”, and that’s too strong on at least one count. After all, Saadya and others attempted to argue for certain of the truths of Judaism.<br /><br />2. There’s something Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com