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p 98. The ways of the philosophers are opposed to the ways of the Torah mesorah (tradition). The philosophers have no way of understanding how a physical act can have an effect on a world beyond this. Without the pnimius (inner aspect) of Torah, it is very hard to grasp the mitzvos in such a gashmi (material) world. A mitzvah exists independent of any rational reason. The Torah was given in a desert, which is a place in this world that is most out of this world. The philosophers do not even have a grasp of the physical world, which they claim to be the masters of, and yet have time to question mitzvos?