Rabbi Eliyahu Yaakov - What is Judaism and Why Should I Care?

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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.

okay I think the conversation about Judaism Jewish philosophy Kabbalah life begins with your average Joe walking down the street imagine got at you were walking with average Joe down the street and you guys saw a table sitting right there in the middle of the street if you were to ask average Joe where does this table come from what is impossible answers average Joe might give you all right you might say that table fell out of a truck it was put there china ikea all sorts of possibilities with that table Mike kaempfert might have come from but he's not going to say oh the table just popped out of nowhere right because the table is something that is in the finite the table is something that is in time and space and everything in time and space we can know two things about it we can know number one from nothing nothing comes and we can know number two-nothing finite can create itself right to the table can't pop out of nowhere and the table cannot bring itself into existence right let's take something else that is finite all right let's take you but are you in the finite are you in time and space yeah certainly the side of you that we can perceive is in time and space is in the finite and therefore we can know two things about you we can know number one from nothing nothing comes we can know number two-nothing finite can create itself so it's not a matter of faith or believe

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1. 0:43okay I think the conversation about Judaism Jewish philosophy Kabbalah life begins with your average Joe…
2. 3:16able to see it with your eye but still it's in the finite still it is…
3. 5:51think it's going to bring them person wants money because he thinks that's going to bring…
4. 8:33the finite even rock and roll dies they're all in the finite all right and so…
5. 11:44continue with 925 lifestyle clearly that would undermine in pursuing this grand or more worldly thing…
6. 14:22and choosing it means you have to have the real ability to destroy it now let's…
7. 17:00these people did you ever upset the parents usually I'll say yes right ever make them…
8. 20:13do it again next year then do it again next decade and we've gone ahead and…
9. 22:54again so here you have Joe totally in love a hundred percent Jane 0% wants nothing…
10. 25:43how do I go ahead and start building my relationship with the infinite and so this…

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