005 - Patterns In Time 4 - Shavuot
Rav Binny Freedman
The Jewish people are lauded for their willingness, sight unseen, to accept the Torah on faith alone. But is faith without understanding necessarily a virtue? Does Judaism value our willingness to abrogate our intellectual obligation to understand that which we do? This discussion explores Judaism’s perspective on the relationship between faith and reason, which lies at the very essence of the festival of Shavuot.