Basics in Judaism - Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb

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[Music] [Applause] [Music] I'd like to give you a brief introduction and then as was said I'm introduction and then as was said I'm happy to try to answer the questions that uh that you may have first of all the Jewish tradition prizes questions a questioning mind a mind that thinks independently a mind that notes problems is something which is valuable and prized Theo tells a story of a scholar who came came from Babylon to Israel and his reputation preceded him the head of the academy in Israel said when he arrives put him in the said when he arrives put him in the front row so they did and the head of the academy gave a lecture afterwards he called over his informant and said why did you tell me he was a great scholar he's no scholar they said why not he said because I presented a whole lecture and he didn't raise any objections if he were a scholar he'd have been able to raise objections um AER one of the greatest Jewish thinkers 200 years ago wrote glosses on the tomet hundreds of times glosses on the tomet hundreds of times his entire comment is see what it says on a page over there and it needs analysis in other words I found a contradiction between this page and that page and he had no answer he just raised the contradiction for other people to think about that's one of the most valuable commentaries on the talmud raising contradictions that you might not have noticed this is applied in elementary education when we lived in Baltimore I was teaching University our oldest son was 8 years old came home one

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