Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb - Jewish Philosophy: Adequate Reason to Believe - Part 7

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

we are talking about your survival and we gave a rundown of the elements of evidence that we have to explain and yesterday we tried the first very common attempted explanation in terms of persecution and we showed that using persecution to explain to her survival is really a non-starter many cultures have disappeared because of persecution in one documented case Jewish culture in the Soviet Union was almost completely wiped out in 70 years from three million identified Jews in 1900 if you had 250,000 left which is less than a ten percent so you ninety percent of the populations wiped out in 70 years of persecution contemporary United States with the explosion of population on the right is not predicted by that model the model just doesn't get the facts right Oh in the first thousand years when we have our own country it's hard to appeal to persecution to say that that's why we survive during that thousand years that's another idea that people use some people and that is that different cultures have different strengths and weaknesses as you would naturally expect Russians are good at writing novels and Dutch a very good at painting and the Germans are good at lots of things like math and philosophy and also painting in and science the United States is very good at inventing new technology Japan is very good at marketing new American technology different cultures are different strength is every week this is maybe Jewish culture is good at creating long lasting cultural products we have a gene or a genius or

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1. 0:19we are talking about your survival and we gave a rundown of the elements of evidence…
2. 4:13norm has failed so of anything we're not good at creating long lasting cultural products so…
3. 7:55he is a means that I'm not prejudiced there could be 162 gods I've chosen to…
4. 11:45that your God has a localized residence doesn't mean he can't follow you into battle and…
5. 16:09life in such a way that it's going to perpetuate itself and others didn't come up…
6. 19:53little doubt I'm the appeal to the food taboo maybe the intuition is there but we'll…
7. 23:29pointed out that every ancient culture had food taboos and he packs up and he says…
8. 27:34influx of Jews also non Jews Italians and Irish and Greek and polish in that was…
9. 31:30protecting effect stronger that's not obvious that's not obvious indeed early reform in Germany through overcautious…
10. 35:19not gonna put it in and and the fact that those who kept it survived doesn't…

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