The Debate About Life on Other Planets

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Avigdor Miller’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Okay, friends. Welcome my home. Welcome everyone. We've an amazing topic today. We're continuing part three of the subject of UFOs, extraterrestrial beings, and space travel, contemporary Halakhic analysis. Today, we're going to speak about the opinions of some of the more contemporary opinions. I will share with you that it was reported and the the headlines on June 6th were administration used $500,000 missile to shoot down UFO. But then you'll be surprised to uh learn about what it really was. According to report, the US Air Force dispatched an F-16 over Lake Huron on February 12th, 2023 to intercept what officials initially believed could be an unidentified aerial threat. The object was destroyed by what by what was likely an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile. The footage released last month by the by the Department of Defense as part of a new batch of declassified UFO-related records shows a dark orb-like object with a string attached appearing briefly in the fighter's in the fighter pilot's targeting system before being blown apart. After the Chinese spy balloon embarrassment, the DOD was shooting at every unidentified anomalous phenomenon. The object was later identified as belonging to a Boy Scout group, according to Sean Kirkpatrick. They shot down a child's balloon which they thought was an unidentified flying object. So, that was just one example of the unidentified flying objects that was shot down. But, we're continuing to discuss this topic. And this is part three of the subject. I want to begin. I want to get the Mar Marcomice up here. Let me put this uh up on the screen. Where uh last week we uh we concluded we saw the opinion of the Pardes Rimmonim regarding the philosophical imperative

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1. 0:00Okay, friends. Welcome my home. Welcome everyone. We've an amazing topic today. We're continuing part three…
2. 3:47And let's see. Reb uh When Reb Cook was asked about this question, [snorts] he offered…
3. 8:13The Mechilta's Rav Enow. Okay, here we go. When man was able to reach the moon…
4. 12:37Rebbi Yaakov Kamenetsky is of the opinion even if there is uh life on other planets,…
5. 16:27is as with the case of man is the presence of free choice. The definition of…
6. 20:44reason is because Tyra is truth and there is only one truth. Perhaps Ramashakota Vero would…
7. 25:15pointing out that I humbly would assert that this would not be consistent with what Rav…
8. 28:54Because according to the evolutionists for man to exist it required trillions of lucky accidents that…
9. 33:09possibility that there was life on other planets. However, he said there is no uh life…
10. 38:00im yesh al eni adam, if someone were to ask me, im yesh sham bri'ah al…

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