Friday, February 10, 2017

Daf Yomi is bad for your spiritual health

This sounds counter intuitive, how can learning Torah be bad for you? However, the fact is that it can, the proof is my recent posts are almost all based on things that I learned in Daf Yomi. The reason is very simple, since you learn every daf of Gemara skipping nothing, you see all the silly, ridiculous, bad things in the Gemara that are always skipped in Yeshivas. You also see all of the rationalizations and apologetics used to answer these questions and you realize that most times the questions are better then the answers.

There is a very famous statement made in the name of R' Chaim that you don't die from a question. While that is true when you have a few questions, when you are innundated with questions it is a sign that your whole approach is wrong. That is how I feel when I think about Judaism these days. While there may be a far fetched answer for each question, the sheer number of questions is overwhelming and points to a fundamental issue with the system.

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  1. Agreed. There are just too many balls to juggle. And thank you for gratiously sharing the questions that have distrurbed you. http://altercockerjewishatheist.blogspot.com/2014/04/some-reasons-to-reject-orthodox-judaism.html

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