Proofs of Emunah and the Mesorah

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

How do we know Hashem exists and that the Torah is true? Being mamlich Hashem on Rosh Hashanah rests on emunah, and every Jew already believes, with the doubts coming from the yetzer hara. The world testifies to a Creator, no religion but ours claims a mass revelation, which could never have been faked, and Klal Yisrael and its Torah surviving golus are miracles we can see.

Key points

• Chiddushei HaLev brings that hidden emunah surfaces in a test, like love for a sick relative.
• The Chovos HaLevavos notes spilled ink never wrote a legible paragraph, nor did anything make itself.
• Only Judaism claims a mass revelation, an argument said over in the Kuzari's name.
• The Chovos HaLevavos sees Klal Yisrael thriving in every golus as a miracle close to Krias Yam Suf.
• A Siddur's introduction swears Torah kept intact through golus outshines Krias Yam Suf.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Emunah before Rosh Hashanah
2. 2:30Chiddushei HaLev on hidden emunah
3. 4:41Room for bechira and Holocaust deniers
4. 7:00A Creator as pure logic
5. 11:11The Kuzari argument of mass revelation
6. 18:37Christianity and Islam on Har Sinai
7. 21:24Chovos HaLevavos on Klal Yisrael in golus
8. 24:04A Siddur introduction on the Torah preserved

Topics

• Emunah
• Golus
• Rosh Hashanah