Faith in a World of Doubt

Michel Benhayim
14 juil.
2 min de lecture

Dernière mise à jour : 20 juil.

Faith in a World of Doubt - Professor Shalom Rosenberg

Shalom Rosenberg (1935 – 2023) was a religious Jewish thinker, Israeli, professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was head of the department of Jewish thought. Rosenberg dealt mainly with the philosophy of religion, the relationship between religion and morality, the relationship between religion and science, and interpretation and hermeneutics in Jewish and general thought.

Faith in a World of Doubt: Introduction

"First, I will observe that the moment we pretend to build a theology, a systematic approach to belief, we sin in our use of religious language.

This aligns with Rabbi Nachman of Breslov’s reading of a verse in Isaiah: “Because that people has approached [Me] with its mouth, and honored Me with its lips, but has kept its heart far from Me. . . ” (29:13) Rabbi Nachman explains: “According to the understanding that he achieves now, his initial understanding will certainly be of a physical [i.e., lower] nature” (לִקּוּטֵי הֲלָכוֹת Likkutei Halakhot I 6:3).

When a person formulates and concretizes his belief, he commits the sin of anthropomorphism and perhaps even idolatry, because the meaning of belief changes constantly and unendingly.

The attempt to define and delineate belief will necessarily stray from the truth. A similar idea is found in the teachings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Martin Buber..."

Professor Shalom Rosenberg

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