I should make clear that my basic approach is that of Deuteronomy from around chapters 5 to 10. that is straight monotheism. So I might agree that Rav Nachman of Breslov has deep insights in the human experience, still I do not hold from any sort of worship of tzadikim, nor any kind of pantheism. It does not matter if people try to dress up these false doctrines in the guise of Torah.
Belief in God is rational. Everything has a cause. So unless there is a first cause, then you would have an infinite regress. And then nothing could exist. Therefore there must be a first cause. Therefore God, the first cause, exists. QED.
30.9.22
There ought to be some means or ways of determining what is legitimate philosophy [such that does not depend on taste]. For i have been conflicted between Hegel and Jacob Fries for as long back as i can remember having learned their different world views. It is not that i am trying to discover the one true philosophy but rather that i see elements of both approaches that come up all the time. for example the triads of Hegel you see in the fact that there can only be three kinds of surfaces: spheres, or torus [or connected torus's] or projective planes. On the other hand Kant's ideas also seem to come up all the time and Kant seems to be in need of some kind of modification also and the best in that way seems to be the Friesian Approach.
To Be Rescued from Dark Side Torah
Even though the study of Musar [mediaeval books on ethics] was emphasized by Israel Salanter as away to gain correction of faulty character traits, it has the further advantage of world view-- that is of gaining a world view not contaminated by modern confusions.
To some degree the effect of modern confusions can be mitigated [lessened] by the study of midrash, still midrash is not systematized. Musar is systematic and does not depend on philosophical sophistication or previous knowledge of tenach or gemara.
There is also advantage that pseudo Torah is generally taught instead of Torah. musar shields from the Torah of the Sitra Achra [Dark Side Torah.]]
29.9.22
It is not who is in the White House is the problem in the USA. Great republics do no depend on who lead but on the collective spirit. If the ideals that America was founded on are weak, that is the real threat.
[i am being short as usual. what i am hinting at is Nero and the fact that the Roman Empire managed and even expanded and grew in power even with the most degenerate emperors.
Also i am making note that the department of disinformation [misnamed as the department of education] has a hand in the decay and erosion of American Values by it promotion of false ideologies,]
28.9.22
marriage just seems like jumping out of an aitplane with a fifty fifty chance that your parachute might open. all the romance seems to have been lost. Nowadays marriages seem like business transactions. the guy gets sex and pays for it. until after the marriage when he pays for it without getting it.
i have thought for a long time to depend on the Raavad and Ramban that see having a mistress as perfectly okay.
It was aggravating and disappointing that after I spent so much time and effort to join the yeshiva world to discover the religous world that surrounds the great Litvak yeshivot [based on the gGra] to be morally challenged. But I do not mean to exonerate the great yeshivot either. -they did a great evil by ignoring the letter of excommunication signed by the Gra. This left the door open for the Sitra Achra [Dark Side] to enter even into the great yeshivot.