Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb - Jewish Philosophy: Our Universe - Part 1

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but I want to start with a story uh which is related to some of the some of the conversation we had yesterday and story that's worthwhile thinking about um and if you want to discuss its moral now I could do that uh but it's worth I thinking about about five years ago I was in South Africa for shabus now there's a custom to stay up all night learning Torah and shus that's easy if you're in the northern hemisphere especially if you're as far hemisphere especially if you're as far north as Jerusalem or New York the whole the whole night is 6 hours long in Johannesburg it's the southern hemisphere the night is 12 hours long or even 13 hours long so it's a longer stint I was speaking at the installation there I got finished with one sheer and fell came up to me and said Rabbi what are you trying to do you're trying to use reason to convince us that Judaism is reason to convince us that Judaism is worthwhile well Rabbi reason is just a Western cultural form it's just something that people happen to do in the west doesn't have any universal validity and he said don't use reason to answer me because that's begging the question using reason when I'm telling you that reason is unreliable well as Divine Providence would have it some months before I had

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1. 0:21but I want to start with a story uh which is related to some of the…
2. 6:02example but I can I I can talk about that if you like he started with…
3. 11:39happen going into some other field where something might happen boy was that a mistake around…
4. 17:16crunches okay that's a that's speculation the Argent of life is a is a field in…
5. 23:29to sort out um I think there's a lot of room for expecting surprising developments around…
6. 29:13that committing oneself to this as the truth on the basis of adequate reason might have…
7. 34:54if he thinks he has adequate reason to think that that atheism is is correct then…
8. 41:10myself to if it's the one with the most evidence and the most probability and it's…
9. 46:53tradition had that experience and the kind of experience that you would expect would leave a…
10. 52:35have for stories of other kinds and we don't have so I say that we have…

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