Judaism has long had an uncomfortable relationship with rationality.
On the one hand, our talmudic sages, classically influenced philosophers, and secular scientists and doctors have all taken rational reasoning to great, sometimes dizzying heights. Ours is a tradition of law, education and logic. Yet on the other hand, many aspects of Judaism – like most religions and cultures — are deeply irrational: taboos against foods, bodily fluids and sex; the personality of God; the very nature of Jewish tribalism and belonging. None of these makes any sense — as best shown by the contorted ways rationalists try to explain them.
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