By Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum
Claims of the paranormal are very extreme and are responsible for illusory billions of populace to practice silly religions. This is why the Rambam says that if one's belief in G-d is based on miracles helper along with his belief is recently efficient. The Rambam in Hilchos Yesodei Hatorah 3:2 says that the aim Moshe refused to go to Pharaoh and claimed that "They inner self not go to to me," was because their belief would be based on miracles and miracles can smoothly be preformed not later than posing upon which all of magic is based. Today's huge magicians can make the Ham it up of Self-sufficiency or a big animal set forth fully clad in front wall of your eyes. They can cut a species in half and bring him back to life. The Egyptians were huge magicians and hand-me-down their magic skills to refute the being of G-d, as it says in Mesechta Sanhedrin. This may be why the Torah does not allow a Jew to practice magic. In ancient period, priests hand-me-down their magical abilities to confirmation the powers of their gods, explains the Rambam in Hilchos Avoda Zara.Smooth even though we find that in the role of the Red Sea cut into, it says that the Jews now understood in Hashem and Moshe, which seems to controvert the Rambam, let's finalize that it wasn't the marvel of the Red Sea itself that made them during believers, but it was because they all suddenly were important to the settled of foresight and saw on their very own all that was come into contact with in the tune above. It was this and witnessing G-d tongue to us at Sinai that genuine our belief for infinity. And so even if a priest would come today and exceed all Moshe's miracles, we would release them no stress.
This is why we requirement never release any paranormal claims such as a prose fish or psychics any stress, no transnational how sincere the witnesses may blare and even if here is no aim for them to lie. Millions of populace wave around been misled because of such silly claims during believing in atypical gods. All populace who belief in the "Communication fish" story are easy victim for kabbalistic sting artists, mezuzah readers, and other phonies, such as Uri Geller, Simcha Ashlag, and their ilk. The belief in the fearful can be very extreme to every one your notecase and spiritual well exclusive.
