Rabbi Berel Wein - Judaism and Modernity

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[Music] tonight's lecture concerns itself with tonight's lecture concerns itself with the Jewish people with the Jewish people being a minority in the culture of the modern world and the culture of modernity again without being too crass there's a four tape lecture series that's available through destiny which discusses the Orthodox response to discusses the Orthodox response to modernity as seen through of Samson they feel Hirsh in Reverse real hildesheimer and maybe so Salaam Thor and ruff cook but tonight's lecture differs than that from that because tonight we're talking about the Jewish people as a whole and it's trying to come to Thorne's struggle to come to terms with the modern world with modernity modernity includes many with modernity modernity includes many different areas first one is technology modern world is a technological wonder it has in itself many many features that even 50 years ago were on dreamt of certainly a hundred years ago certainly in the time the Middle Ages no one to match in the world such as the one that we live in but technology brings with it we live in but technology brings with it benefits and problems like everything else in life almost nothing is one-sided of being perfectly good and they are being perfectly problematic and therefore brought problems to the Jewish world as well I'll give you a few examples what technology does basically is it puts people out of work because of the fact people out of work because of the fact that the old jobs are gone so a certain level of the population never gets retrained never able to accommodate itself to the new world and becomes either the burden of the rest of the population or it is completely ignored and devastated now we will say as we all

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