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Divinity Part 10: Refuting Hinduism,Sikhism and Jainism

2.7K views · Apr 20, 2018

Rabbi Yehoshua Zitron

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things are idol worship you're not suppose to be learning about our worship be sensibly teaching about our worship these are the things that you should be refraining from doing so we have to delve into a you know very carefully and this is also why based off the hahaha from the Rambam Maimonides in ha da da a person is not even mentioned a name of an idol you not even mention the name of it which people for some reason you know it's a it's a very not known when people speak about hinduism they start mentioning all the gods you not even mention those gods names so that's gonna make a little bit difficult because we're going to be speaking about them but we can't mention their gods names the so the going back to the reason why i decided to speak about this is you know when speaking about people that you know trying to you know they don't really believe in god they have questions about god that if questions about Judaism one of the very very common questions that I personally get well how do you know we had the right one how do you know there's so many religions out there we spoke about last week we said it was 4,200 religions and each religion has denominations upon denominations upon denominations so how do we know that we're in the right one maybe let's look at numbers you know Christianity is very popular maybe that's what's the right one maybe Islam

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  1. 0:32things are idol worship you're not suppose to be learning about our worship be sensibly teaching
  2. 6:17place am i doing the right thing am i following the path that I'm supposed to
  3. 12:45all borrowed from other other things Hinduism for example the not hindus i'm sorry the whole
  4. 19:08very sacred in Hindu texts and before they have the rig without before they do their
  5. 24:56thing I'm like take a hell that class like please like learn something if that is
  6. 32:22different things and they actually put it on the website you see there the tribe they
  7. 38:38on the subway there are certain people from a certain ethnic group they would have also
  8. 44:19much like somebody's in a power you know struggle you know trying to create their own
  9. 50:45they're known as teachers and there are 24 of these types of teachers in fact you
  10. 57:00being the ways that they got to that act and we're just trying to remind us

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