{"id":79298,"date":"2015-11-13T14:16:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T22:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=79298"},"modified":"2015-11-13T14:16:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T22:16:15","slug":"the-kuzari-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=79298","title":{"rendered":"The Kuzari Argument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/seforim.blogspot.com\/2015\/11\/assorted-comments-on-r-jacob-emden_2.html\">Marc B. Shapiro writes<\/a>:  I completely reject the <A HREF=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kuzari\">Kuzari<\/a> argument not only for logical reasons but because it can be used to &#8220;prove&#8221; the historicity of miracles in other religions, miracles that we are told were witnessed by many people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Most Jews don&#8217;t keep Torah. What else will they be able to say? Even people raised religious can have the status of anus or tinok she-nishbah. R. Chaim Brisker said that emunah begins where proof (i.e., evidence) stops. But I don&#8217;t think the beit din on high will be asking such questions. The people who didn&#8217;t keep the Torah will realize then how much they missed out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc B. Shapiro writes: I completely reject the Kuzari argument not only for logical reasons but because it can be used to &#8220;prove&#8221; the historicity of miracles in other religions, miracles that we are told were witnessed by many people&#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=79298\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marc-b-shapiro"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79299,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79298\/revisions\/79299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}