QUESTION:
I don’t understand the Rav’s style in sefer Bilvavi Mishkan Evneh teaches that we need to develop our emunah in a question-and-answer format by asking ourselves question s how the world got created and then clarifying that Hashem created it, etc. This sounds like an intellectual and philosophical approach towards emunah, which is very different from the emunah I was taught as a child, which is that we need to simply believe that Hashem is here, there, everywhere and without clarifying how this is true and without getting into question s.
ANSWER:
It is like when we say the question s of the Mah Nishtanah by the Pesach seder, which is in question -and- answer format. We are not asking the question s because we are honestly questioning it and looking for an answer [rather, we already know the answer and we are just clarifying it to ourselves so that our knowledge can internalize].
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