Question of the Week
I read your response to a question about what happens to souls after they die. I think it's ridiculous that you claim to be able to answer such a question. Why should I believe that Rabbi Aron Moss knows about the afterlife and the reincarnation of souls?
Answer
I would answer you by simply rearranging the words of your question.
You asked:
"Why should I believe that Rabbi Aron Moss knows about the afterlife and the reincarnation of souls?"
My answer:
"You should know that Rabbi Aron Moss believes in the afterlife and the reincarnation of souls."
It is unfortunate that many people don't know the difference between belief and knowledge.
Knowledge is the purview of science, the study of the visible, measurable universe.
Religion goes further, venturing into those realities that lie beyond the scope of science, the realms of metaphysics and infinity.
We limited humans can grasp those realities with our power of belief: the art of suspending self in order to connect with something higher than self.
Scientific knowledge and religious belief need not conflict. In fact, we need them both. When we embrace one at the expense of the other, we are missing a part of ourselves. Faith without knowledge may be blind. But knowledge without faith is deaf, unable to hear the music of infinity.
Now a suggestion. Don't be one of those people who accepts only that which is scientifically proven. You may end up being reincarnated as a religious fundamentalist in order to correct your mistake.
Good Shabbos,
Rabbi Moss