tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444302008319623182.post6331072306362939771..comments2022-11-13T03:56:54.744-05:00Comments on Daily Torah Thought: 48 Ways: #24b - The sincerity of sagesThe Rebbetzin's Husbandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14977193945074906534noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444302008319623182.post-30637078558722675042013-05-01T17:25:04.242-04:002013-05-01T17:25:04.242-04:00R' Micha, Anonymous-
I hear, thanks. And I don...R' Micha, Anonymous-<br />I hear, thanks. And I don't see a machlokes here; it is an ambiguity, indeed, which supports complementary meanings.The Rebbetzin's Husbandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14977193945074906534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444302008319623182.post-58649945751826590882013-05-01T06:18:09.382-04:002013-05-01T06:18:09.382-04:00It's the same grammatical ambiguity: does &quo...It's the same grammatical ambiguity: does "your emunah" mean the trust you have, or the trustworthiness -- and thus the trust we have in you?<br /><br />As I said, very different context. But there too there are multiple meanings because the word can be taken either way.micha bergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11612144735431285113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444302008319623182.post-23796241197995574792013-05-01T06:10:01.171-04:002013-05-01T06:10:01.171-04:00I don't recognize ambiguity here, but rather c...I don't recognize ambiguity here, but rather complementary (not "complimentary") definitions. Yesterday's definition exhorts us to have emunah in our sages. Today's (i.e. Rabbeinu Bechayye's) definition exhorts the sages to not just talk-the-talk, but walk-the-walk, and thus facilitate the student's trust. That "Modeh Ani" contains a reference to HaShem's emunah is interesting, but I don't recognize the connection.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4444302008319623182.post-78848915132435737602013-05-01T05:49:17.609-04:002013-05-01T05:49:17.609-04:00The same ambiguity, but in a very different contex...The same ambiguity, but in a very different context. We say in Modeh Ani, "rabba emunasekha". Is that a praise of how much we could count on G-d, or a statement of how much His is willing to trust us (giving us another day despite not having used yesterday as we could have)?<br /><br />Commentaries on Eikhah 3:23, the source of the idiom, offer both.micha bergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11612144735431285113noreply@blogger.com