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Basics of Emunah #11 By Why Did Jews Reject Christianity & Islam?

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

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it's in your first source sheet parches your a peric you'd gimmel if there arises from amidst you a prophet or a dreamer and he gives you a sign or a wonder uh and the miracle the sign the wonder that he performed that he predicted actually materializes and his message is look i am a prophet let us go worship other gods you should not listen not obey the words of that prophet or dreamer kimanasa hashem al-aqsham ladas if so how did he manage to pull off such a feat a supernatural miracle hashem is testing you to know if you love your god with all your heart and with all your soul here we have a fascinating mitzvah a man comes along and performs miracles and not fake miracles it's not you know the magic shows the puppet shows the terrorist says he predicts something and it happens he performs a supernatural event and it happens and he uses this as proof that he's a genuine prophet sent from the creator of the world to tell the jewish people to go worship idolatry comes the torah and says do not listen to him either is a miracle it doesn't mean he is a true navy god never spoke this is what the torah says granted on this passage there is a mysterious and strange commentary of the baal haturim that has uh perturbed jews for many generations perturbed them so much that many editions deleted the baalhaturam it was too mysterious to handle a few words about the balatur when you open the hummus you'll see most hamas on the bottom you see baal haturim which means the author or the master of the torah tourism literally means rose or lions who is the balatorium it's good to know you have a hummus you see bala tour but it's good to know

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  1. 0:37it's in your first source sheet parches your a peric you'd gimmel if there arises from
  2. 6:30his opinion the rambam never really discusses debates the tour in his halachic work will bring
  3. 12:49is the numerical value like the word zuha isha this is the woman the kirby has
  4. 19:23this balatur where is he quoted we don't have this in the works of akiva but
  5. 25:28[Applause] of idolatry therefore irrelevant of the wonders of miracles he may have performed we know
  6. 31:53will believe him it's like two witnesses who saw something together every one of them is
  7. 38:30to hate not a problem but you have to be intellectually consistent never in history do
  8. 44:51are unbelievable those are all great stuff but you have to understand if you would have
  9. 51:30heard god and they all look at maisha let's call them moisha jefferson and they say
  10. 58:48even from an isu abundant a rabbinic prohibition they should notice so the story is according

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