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Parshat Shlah

put logic aside,

put reason on hold.


there may be no way forward.

we don’t know how this is going to turn out,

where we’re going to end up,

or how we’re going to get there.


the people may be powerful,

the cities fortified,

their children giants.


but let’s go anyway.


acknowledge the reality;

honesty is okay.


June 22, 1940

Rather, this is how it needs to be with a Jewish person of faith. Not only must one believe that God will strengthen them and save them at a moment in which they see a pathway to their salvation based on reasoning and nature but also at a moment when they don’t see, God forbid, a way forward to their salvation based on reasoning and according to nature, they must believe God will save them and strengthen them in faith and in trust.


אבל כך צריכה להיות אמונת האיש הישראלי, לא בלבד בשעה שרואה מבוא ודרך לישועתו גם על פי שכלו ודרך הטבע יאמין בד' שיושיעהו ויתחזק, רק גם בשעה שאינו רואה חס וחלילה שום מבוא על פי שכל ודרך הטבע לישועתו יאמין בד' שיושיעהו ויתחזק באמונתו ובטחונו.




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