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(1) There are some people--and they are people of deep hearts--who walks in the ways of the philosophers, investigating all things with their minds and intellects. It is very astonishing in their eyes, regarding the commandments pertaining to deeds, that a person should merit eternal success in the separate world by means of any commandment that is physical. They say, what help can a physical deed give the the soul as a means to acquire eternal life in the separate world, in a place where there are no physical deeds? And more than this, they are astonished…
Tiferet Yisrael 6:1
FIRST ARGUMENT FOR THE UNITY OF G-D
The first, from our examination of the causes of existent things. When we investigate on them, we find that causes are always fewer than their effects, namely, the higher up one ascends into the chain of causes, the fewer the number of causes, and the more and more one ascends this chain, the fewer and fewer will be their number until eventually one reaches one Cause, which is the Cause of all causes.
Duties of the Heart, First Treatise on Unity 7:2
(2) Secondly, if a man were not forced to exert himself in seeking a livelihood, he would kick (become defiant) and chase after sin, and he would ignore his debt of gratitude to G-d for His goodness to him. As written: "And the harp, and the lyre, the timbrel, and flute, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the L-ord, neither consider the work of His hands" (Yeshaya 5:12), and "But Yeshurun grew fat, and kicked: you are grown fat, you are grown thick, you are covered with fatness…
Duties of the Heart, Fourth Treatise on Trust 3:36
20. The Rabbi: Only a perverse, heretical person would deny the nature of what is possible, making assertions of opinions in which he does not believe. Yet from the preparations he makes for events he hopes for or fears, one can see that he believes in their possibility, and that his preparations may be useful. If he believed in absolute necessity, he would simply submit, and not equip himself with weapons against his enemy, or with food against his hunger. If he, on the other hand, thinks that either preparation or the omission of the same is necessary in accordance with the nature of the…
Kuzari 5:20
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