Wednesday 2 May 2012

What is your Preference - Myway/Highway or Elu v'Elu?

First see
The Eilu vaEilu Paradox | Aspaqlaria

http://www.aishdas.org/asp/2012/05/the-eilu-vaeilu-paradox.shtml


Then this comment from
Garnel Ironheart



«The cartoon doesn't work. As soon as the guy on the left appeared, his counterpart on the right should have been intellectually honest and acknowledged that there are multiple universes which means the scientific understanding in that parallel universe had been incorrect.
==» An ability to recognize that one's approach is not the only one and that there are different proper approaches nullifies the paradox which only exists if people are stubborn that it's their way or the highway.<==»


Then what someone who opposes Elu v'Elu writes:

« this is the pshat in the gemara. There is no other»


Pick your Philosophical Preference.

Shalom and Regards,
RRW

1 comment:

micha berger said...

I think Garnel confuses levels of abstraction in my mashal. It translates to requiring that no one can be sure anyone is outside their eilu va'eilu. The Bnei Braq resident can't say I'm beyond the red line, and I can't say that Conservative Judaism is beyond the red line.

The whole point of my argument is that since EVERYONE limits eilu va'eilu somewhere, someone is bound to be in the position of counting as valid a position that implies their own position is wrong.