The Power of Emunah in God

when it comes to faith belief and muna there are many besides whom have the lesson of yiddia that we have to know ladashi shalom ladashi ishmael the rambam has that lashing as well if your belief is only based on evidence the mo face whether it's based upon evidence of a miracle or whatnot that is not a muna at all or in other words knowledge and faith are mutually exclusive if you know you don't believe if you believe you don't know they're different words capturing different ideas and therefore if one wants to fulfill the mitzvah one cannot note with 100 certainty which is part of the reason why there's a great world the rabona shalom apparently according to this does not want us to have ironclad undisputable 100 percent evidence what he wants is enough clarity so that if a person wants to take the leap of faith again and if a person does not they don't have to and that leap of faith is amuna if a person's evidence if evidence takes a person to 75 sure the mitzvah of emunah is only 25 percent of a person 60 percent of the medicine is 40 percent if admits a person believes that evidence takes into 98 percent there's two percent the myth is to take evidence facts and jump from there to get to 100 of belief in hashem and one may wonder why would one do that why would one throw themselves in it's such a tremendous sacrifice and you don't even know 100 but i like to suggest that there are two things in the world that people want in life truth and happiness everything you want is a means to get to one of those people want to live truthful meaningful purposeful deep lives and simultaneously enjoyable pleasures from lives along the way we want to live and synthesize those two things together the decisions we make are usually because they lead us to either truth or to happiness if a person is looking for deep truth and faith deep truth and purpose i don't see any other way around it besides faith if god didn't create the world and the whole world's an accident there can't be purpose in an accident the rabona shalom is the ticket to finding purpose and meaning because religion is what offers truth and meaning the question is can we do that in a way that's enjoyable once we learn how to enjoy religion and frankly happiness is earned not all of it but a lot of it once we can enjoy serving hashem properly the sacrifice is no longer great in other words for me to keep all the mints i believe it i want it i think it's likely that this is the most meaningful thing to do but sometimes it's challenging it's tough if i learn how to get a geshmac out of talk i learn how to enjoy it if i learn how to make it pleasuresome and fun and exciting and fulfilling well then it's a lot easier to take that leap of faith the reason why people invest in religion tar mitzvahs is because it's their best ticket towards scratching both itches to accomplishing both things towards living a life of truth and happiness and that's perhaps the motivating factors even though i only know so much if i throw myself in fully i walk out with a lifestyle of what i'm looking for i think this idea of synthesizing truth and happiness one should serve hashem something meaningful purposeful profound worthwhile do something with your time that is substantive but to do it with enjoyment with pleasure with excitement emirates hashem we should fulfill the mitzvah know god as much as we can from their jump and leap to get to a hundred percent of faith based upon this mitzvah of and the reason why we are interested in throwing ourselves in fully is because you walk out benefiting with a deep sense of truth and happiness what we want in life is truth and happiness and religion offers it to us