Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb - Jewish Philosophy: How Far Can We Trust Human Logic?

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I think a lot of people assume that when you take on oh this is point of view you have to kiss goodbye to your mind to your reason to your understanding you're getting about something that's infinitely tall definitely big and God can't be understood all together and then you just have to take orders and be a robot but to stop in question and to end to analyze so try to explain it is left behind and then with that assumption that attitude you get into Jewish learning if I exact opposite is the case the Torah as a life system gives a very large stamp of validity to human understanding to human logic ability to arrive at the truth to rely on the truth and to make an effort to understand the third does not be little human reasoning you understanding at all I want to give you first of all some direct applications of that and then I'll give you an extended example of how it works first of all the Torah has one main part a book of law epic who loves quite extensive there's civil law criminal law organization the state various institutions the rules by which they operate it's a vast body of law and it is expected that Jews will master it and apply it so just the scholarship and logic and analysis necessary to understand that body of law and to be able to reconcile contradictions within the law and to define the key concepts

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10. 46:31not a contradiction it's a way to make it consistent so then when you do that…

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