שאלות ותשובותCategory: ChazalThe words of science are part of the Divine
Anon asked Staff ago

Your wrote in Pamphlet 5: According to Maimonides anything which is said and which is reasonable we accepted and adopted. It does not matter who said it, be he a gentile, Jew, wise man, or prophet. This is also the opinion of Rabbi Chaim Kanevsky; he states that the words of scientists become holy as long as they are even mentioned in the writings of a Jewish scholar.

Proof of your words:

And you should know that “the whole world is full of [G-d’s] glory” (Isaiah 10) “and there is no place empty of G-d” (Tikkun 57). Our Sages OBM revealed to us that in all physical ways and in all the speech of the gentiles G-dliness can be found, for without the Divine they have no life at all, as is written (Nehemiah 9), “And you sustain them all.”



It’s just a shame that your language, in speaking of Chazal, is sometimes coarse.



Avi

1 Answers
jsadmin Staff answered 22 years ago

Dear Avi,



According to you, all faith or heresy has something of the Divine. If so, how can a person decide which is the correct path in the eyes of “G-d”?



Daat Emet