Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb - The Nature of Miracles

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

two things we as we put it for ourselves to make things happen one of the elements that we take for granted in our world is cause and effect sometimes we make things happen or something sometimes one thing makes something else happen take a raw egg and put it in boiling water comes out hard boil or the Wind Blows the snow off the boil or the Wind Blows the snow off the Mountain Cap there's an avalanche cause and effect is part of our everyday World part of our experience we take for granted another thing we take for granted is the permanence of the items in our world we're all sitting in a room in which there's a number of tables most of them have been here for at least 5 minutes 7 Minutes 8 minutes at least 5 minutes 7 Minutes 8 minutes and the tables just sit there yes we could if we desired annihilate them but no one has and in the meantime they just sit there same is true with the stones same is true with us items just sit there they continue to exist all on their own this is what we take for granted the picture that I'm going to describe to you says that none of this is really you says that none of this is really correct it's really all an illusion it's a deep illusion R's way of describing the picture is this you know what a video a video really is a video really is a sequence of pictures each picture is a still picture a

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1. 0:00two things we as we put it for ourselves to make things happen one of the…
2. 5:41floor psychologically we are prone to integrate it into a single thing the history of a…
3. 11:20you're right I I put a little too much in I you're right I I I…
4. 17:01the third point in terms of the religious understanding of the idea I I'm inclined to…
5. 22:46but they are creatures and why they shouldn't be brand new every moment I can just…
6. 28:28often has no effect on his behavior if you show him an x-ray his lungs you…
7. 34:05that question because they didn't have microscopes they didn't know that living living bodies are made…
8. 39:40and whenever I push hard enough I overcome the resistance it's more when it's just that…
9. 45:20relation to human soul um well I'm not quite sure what you mean let's take it…
10. 50:57a sentence or two it doesn't get a very elaborate uh description but indeed it created…

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