Idealizing Doubt

One of the most popular speakers on the Jewish lecture circuit wrote- "Faith is not certainty. Faith is the courage to live with uncertainty..."

RUBBISH [if I may be English for a moment]. No it ISN'T. That is a NOXIOUS idea. Faith is [on the most basic level] being more convinced of the existence of Hashem than you are of your own existence. There are COUNTLESS SOURCES which teach us that we have to know for sure that Hashem exists and NOT ONE that suggests that faith means having doubts. ספק - doubt, uncertainty, is always represented by עמלק [and shares the same gematria], the personification of evil on earth.

Imagine you tell your spouse "I am not sure I love you. Heck, I am not even sure if you exist. But I will courageously live with that". HELLLLLOOOOOO marriage counseling.  

That being said, we all have had doubts from time to time but that comes from human weakness and must be overcome, not encouraged. So we validate our doubts. It shows that we are thinking. But then we must constantly work to overcome them. Nobody wants to live with doubts as to the meaning of life nor should we. THAT is why we had revelation, both at Sinai and later to our Nevi'im.

As we say in the High Holiday poem: הודאי שמו, כן תהילתו!!!!  - His praise is the certitude we have in His Name. 

[I once sent this person an email showing how he totally twisted a source to meet his agenda but only received an automated reply telling me that his calender is full for the next eight years😊].