Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Pachad Yitzchak - Definition of faith

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

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4 comments:

  1. micha bergerNovember 16, 2010 at 1:48 AM

    I'm not going to ask the obvious. But you gave me an itch and no way to scratch it!

    -micha

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  2. JosephNovember 16, 2010 at 4:59 AM

    B"H for our Gedolei Yisroel zt"l.

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  3. kreisNovember 16, 2010 at 10:46 PM

    kind of circular...

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  4. yitznewtonNovember 24, 2010 at 9:49 PM

    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.

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