Historical Verification of the Torah - Part 6 - Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb

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okay we're talking about you is survival and we were talking about whether or not there could be a natural explanation and we gave me a list of things that need to be explained and we considered persecution and a natural ability to create long lasting cultural products as possible explanations and we said they don't fit the facts what we're looking at today is probably the most popular most intuitive way of explaining to a most intuitive way of explaining to a survival and that is Judaism has in it elements that naturally promote the survival of the culture identity group in particular it has in it isolating laws and practices maybe even institutions which result in isolation even though they don't preach isolation so you have cassius which means you can't eat at the table of non-jews can't eat at the table of non-jews although you couldn't invite them for supper thank you within probably a one-way relationship unbalanced relationship is going to be inhibited and the Canada to Mary prayer requires a certain and minimum number of Jews and only Jews and then you have your own religion with its own language which is different from everybody else's language and customs that are different everybody else's customs dress and those things else's customs dress and those things and actually go to isolates so the thought is Jews who has in it elements that naturally isolate Jews from their surroundings and that's why they've survived because they have these isolated as features built into their way of life there nothing's wrong with this thought number one we're trying to explain why Judaism survived and other cultures disappeared well then the first question to ask is did other cultures also have isolating features if this was

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8. 35:10and therefore they're not selective like it'll be conquered and everybody gets conquered sooner or later…
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10. 45:11attacker will do it at other times also so you won't pick up that pattern right…

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