Pachad Yitzchak (Emuna): Faith is that which is necessary to believe in order not to be called a heretic.
פחד יצחק ד"ה אמונה. אמונה היא דבר שצריך להאמין כדי שלא להקרא כופר
I'm not going to ask the obvious. But you gave me an itch and no way to scratch it!-micha
B"H for our Gedolei Yisroel zt"l.
kind of circular...
I'll bite. Not sure if this is what others have said, but: all he does is give parameters, he doesn't define it. i.e. he specifies (by proxy) what one must be מאמין without explaining what להאמין means.
I'm not going to ask the obvious. But you gave me an itch and no way to scratch it!
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B"H for our Gedolei Yisroel zt"l.
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ReplyDeleteI'll bite. Not sure if this is what others have said, but: all he does is give parameters, he doesn't define it. i.e. he specifies (by proxy) what one must be מאמין without explaining what להאמין means.
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