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welcome to Sparks of History where Jewish history and world history meet we are extremely pleased and honored to have with us today Rabbi natanel weer blank Rabbi weer blank studied at the ISA greater Washington Karen bavna and the Kon Yesa in Israel as well as Yeshiva University and Rabbi weer blank received his rabinal ordination SM from Reeds RAB Isaac elhan Theological Seminary at is University currently Rabbi weer Blan is a magir lecturer at yes University where he teaches college and SM students T ala and Jewish philosophy reader blank also serves as the rabbi at the Yeshiva Community sh called the shank sh blank has published numerous articles in English and in Hebrew on toic and philosophical issues and is the author of The Illuminating Jewish thought series series Volume One Faith philosophy and knowledge of God volume two explorations of free will the afterlife and the Messianic era and today we'll discussing fascinating and very important topic covering the origin and development of the written law oral law and the Commandments me spot what was revealed when was it revealed reader BL thank you so much for joining us today we appreciate it very much it's real pleasure just one correction I'm no longer the rabbi at sheno okay moved from Washington Heights to pic a number of years ago so uh okay okay very good um stand corrected thank you uh just to start off when exactly were the mitv the Commandments given and were they all given at Sinai and in their complete detail I there's a lot in this one question there is a lot in one question and uh let's try to break it up into Parts um so first I think you asked were the mitzvot given at sini so there are a
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