In a recent speech given by Rabbi Manis Freedman, he states that the fact that our mother tells us that the Torah is true should be enough.
I find this difficult to comprehend, as the majority of the world have beliefs that differ from the Jewish belief and if we use his theory of proof then by definition all beliefs are true.
This would be a ludicrous statement as many beliefs contradict other beliefs and it would be impossible for them all to be true.
I always took the view that if you take each belief on its own merits and if it stood up to inquisition then it has a chance of being true.
This is when I run in to difficulties with the Jewish belief as statements written in the Torah do not stand up to inquisition and while this is not my finding as the Rabbi’s of the Mishana, Talmud, Geonim, RIshonim, Achronim and Chasidim all need to adapt what was written to state that it really means something else entirely.
An example would be the position of the Geonim, who held that Gilgul was rubbish and didn’t happen. Later when the Zohar was found and incorporated as correct Jewish dogma had a problem with this position and hold that the Geonim didn’t have access to this thought and hence why they held what they held, however if they would have been as knowledgeable as us they would of course have agreed with us.
This is a very strange way of explaining as we are always led to believe that each generation is lower then the previous generation as the further we go from Har Sinai the lower we are and the less knowledgeable we become. This is a direct contradiction to the answer given re gilgulim. If on the other hand you say that we have more knowledge then we come to the view of science and our masoreh falls away.