Beyond Faith & Intellect

G_d has put us in a world of concealment. He wants us to reveal him by gradually removing the layers of concealment behind which the spiritual world is revealed. He wishes for us to know Him through levels of sensations of His sublime qualities of love.

By performing spiritual work defined in the inner depths of the Torah, we remove the concealments through feelings of love of others within a spiritual group that aspires for revelation.

From the power of bonding in love of friends we reach revelation of the love of G_d. We shift from egoism to altruism, the spiritual world.

We shift from blind faith to true revelation of wisdom. Reply

The small article is even more profound if we focus on wisdom. Surely, human life is contradictory because we are not given all the tools to know for certainty, Yes, intellect and faith but if you let it simmer for a while to a quiet moment that results in a wise decision based on truth that is the key. TRUTH is what is being discussed here in the final analysis. While there is no such thing as a 100% certainty truth bares the reality as it is not as we want to. So let us search for moment of wisdom that lead us to truth and then lead us to a more genuine existence. Reply

Dear Rabbi, what is the difference between: ruach hakodesh, intuition, and da’at? and chochmah? what is the most one can develop these in today’s age, and how? Reply

Mathematics is the true science of explanations in numbers and formulas, but not all sciences can be explained with formulas, some are only based upon theories and there can be many possibilities with theories. This is where belief or faith takes hold and without one of these we can’t become a whole person. Even though there are many people in the world who feel there is an explanation for everything, everyday this way of thinking is becoming more disproved. At one time the climate in most areas was predictable, but today what was normal is becoming most absurdly abnormal. Just as the person who feels they need no creator to believe in because they can explain everything away, those people are even becoming less and less. Faith is believing in something or someone that isn’t seen or can’t be touched, but you just know that it’s there because your heart feels it and your senses experience it in some way. This is the G d given gift of wisdom that probably most of us pray for daily. Reply

Wisdom can make lovingkindness loud, as in the case of Abraham and Sarah. Reply

A Rabbi Cardoza in Israel wrote a very long but interesting article and asked, why do we pray to a God we do not even know exists? Admittedly, it leads to a lot of questions, and I doubt the average layman or even the most learned rabbi has an answer. Reply

thank you; it is sometimes very complicated to find the Words to express certain Concepts or Conditions, since for someone certain Words may be used while for someone else certain other Words may be more accurate; I would call Wisdom Intelligence, and I would consider Intellect as something constructed (it is often about mnemonic Skills and subjected to Indoctrination), while Faith may be either tied to Intellect or, to Intelligence (''which tells from within'', Intution ''inner Tuition'' and is somehow innate; while anything that has to do with Intellect comes from without, see Education or, as it was said, Indoctrination), while the very good Point (i.e. perceptive Point of View) is the one about making Things or Conditions (or Qualities or Functions) work together harmoniously; Blessings Reply

This article did open up my mind...
"You can't question G-d?" Reply

It is very clear. beyond description I felt that the three corners dimension Faith Intellectual and Wisdom to work altogether leads a hollowed life from the spiritual guidance. (emunah hebrew word )Shortly speaking : it is. Bringing Heaven down to earth we can live in the bosom of Abraham Isac and Jacov on this earth sometimes.May be we tasted the kingdom of King David .to come. Reply

Intellect leads to faith which leads to limited wisdom. Reply

That's the key to join them together, so they can work in harmony as one and this is with everything. All comes from the One and the One is in all.
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Space has sides and is one. The center is covered with the left and the right and this is what wholeness fills. Reply

This helped me a great deal as I pray for wisdom every night. Faith combined with intellect brings wisdom. Thank you. Reply

Wisdom, faith and intellect well explained. Thank You Reply

Question:

I don't know if I understand the last sentence:

To allow "it°= wisdom? entry whereto? Into a combination of intellect and faith without loosing any of them?

This is something like Chochmah + Binah = Da'at

Thesis plus antithesis results into symthesis Reply

intellect/faith am praying for wisdom! Reply

Big 3 plus 2 So here is the key to belief/faith. Joining the dots of intellect and faith and wisdom. Good example was the women at Sinai eschewing the Golden Calf while the men, in general, did not.
This simple powerful message challenges the Jewish intellect. It is based on the sidebars of incomplete knowledge and concealed truth.

Thank you for such a succinct logical formula to get a feeling for the Ultimate Reality. Reply

I see now I wonder if Rabbi Freeman has talked to Rabbi Cohen and wrote this. I was being asked to write a postcard urging people to believe in the existence of G-d.

I couldn't write it. I was dumbfounded on the angle I would approach it. Belief in G-d was something between faith and intellect and I couldn't write the approach that would strike the heart and make people see the way I saw G-d. In the end, I took the Intellectual path showing proof through science. But I was left feeling I was not successful.

The concept of G-d is so simple yet is beyond human words, I'm afraid he is like Pi,the proportion of a circle to its diameter--a number that never repeats or ends. He is, like this number, improbable and yet well there it is, Pi exists. Reply