Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser on God, Torah, and Mesorah

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

Shalom and welcome to a practical spirituality here in the Old City of Jerusalem at Asia tour overlooking the Temple Mount today's session is going to be an interesting one what we're going to talk about today is three things and one is one is God Torah and the last one's called miss surah God Torah Emma surah and what are we gonna be is discussing specifically we're gonna be discussing actually how do we how do you know there's a god and when it comes to Torah how do we know Tara wasn't man written and when it comes to massara is how do we know it's not broken telephone 3:3 you know the tour was given 3,300 years ago so who says it's not broken telephone who says that the Torah we live today meaning the our daily practice as Jews it is actually relevant to what Moses said like who would would notice this even recognize us today now I'm not sure he'd recognize my outfit but would he recognize my tefillin would he recognize our Shabbat would he recognize the way we make kiddush what do you say yeah that's it or would he say like what is that you hear the questions now a lot of these questions are not allowed to be asked so much because 200 years ago there was over 200 years ago there was something called the Haskalah which we call in Hebrew but in English the word Haskalah means the Enlightenment movement the Enlightenment movement was an amazing movement way

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