06-09-2019, 09:08 PM
I'm not sure I see where Prager presents things as facts.
He states in the introduction -
"In writing this commentary, I have no hidden agenda. My agenda is completely open: I want as many people as possible to take the Torah seriously, to entertain the possibility (emphasis mine) it is God-given, or, at the very least, to understand why many rational people do.
And then -
"First, my approach to understanding and explaining the Torah is reason-based. I never ask the reader top accept anything on faith alone. If something I write does not make rational sense, I have not done my job. On those few-thankfully, very few-occasions I do not have a rational explanation for a Torah verse, I say so."
So he goes out on a limb to say this is just his commentary, that he wants people to believe in Torah for rational reasons and if he doesn't make a clear reason to do so, then he has more work to do.
That is the reason I chose to read this book.
He states in the introduction -
"In writing this commentary, I have no hidden agenda. My agenda is completely open: I want as many people as possible to take the Torah seriously, to entertain the possibility (emphasis mine) it is God-given, or, at the very least, to understand why many rational people do.
And then -
"First, my approach to understanding and explaining the Torah is reason-based. I never ask the reader top accept anything on faith alone. If something I write does not make rational sense, I have not done my job. On those few-thankfully, very few-occasions I do not have a rational explanation for a Torah verse, I say so."
So he goes out on a limb to say this is just his commentary, that he wants people to believe in Torah for rational reasons and if he doesn't make a clear reason to do so, then he has more work to do.
That is the reason I chose to read this book.