Historical Verification of the Torah - Part 1 - Jewish Philosophy

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

[Music] okay we we have six sessions together today tomorrow and then sunday through wednesday next week um given my background since i'm a philosopher logician what concerns me is whether being a believing jew is something that we have good reason for not everybody's concerned with that people some people are looking for a way of life that serves their general hopes creates a quality of living that they find valuable some people are concerned to be able to defend justify give reasons for what they believe that's my line of work so i would like to share with you at least what could be done in six days why it's reasonable to be a believing jew i want to start with revelation at sinai because without sinai there is no judaism as you all know judaism is among other things the religion of commandments there are no commandments unless there's a commander and unless he expressed himself about what he wants us to do communicate it with us without that there are no commandments and i think is well known judaism is unique in all the religions of the world that starts with a national revelation the story of jewish history the story that the jewish religion tells about itself features very prominently a national revelation every other religion starts with a story that so and so is special in some way this recalls the old hasidic parable gravy died and he had two sons and each son said that he should be the new leader of the group and there was some competition for a while until one day one of the sons presented himself to the group and said i know that i'm the right choice because our father of blessed memory came to me

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1. 0:06[Music] okay we we have six sessions together today tomorrow and then sunday through wednesday next…
2. 4:26make up your mind to something's true if we can agree on what counts as a…
3. 9:16we together so far should i answer your question good now how do we do it…
4. 13:28no one can live the life saying i don't believe it until i check it out…
5. 18:08and peter pre-meditatedly pushed paul off the boat and the sharks ate full thoroughly down to…
6. 22:50proven to be wrong they are 0.001 percent of the convictions that we verify afterwards so…
7. 26:58whole group had an experience and it's a landmark experience it's an experience that will change…
8. 31:40which are entities and which are accepted by historians as as as valid if you ask…
9. 35:51cage and then when he lost the battle so then he just leaves that out and…
10. 40:33book called the kuzuri written by reputed lady a thousand years ago he gave me the…

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