Darwin, evolution, and the Torah, Our pride in the Mesorah 11 03 2024

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

Okay, good morning. Welcome back. Um, over bin is manim, I came across a book called The Rabbi Suitcase. Maybe some people have seen it. It came out a few years ago. It was from a a British retiree, like an older British guy who retired. And he said in his family, it's really his wife's family, his wife's grandfather, great-grandfather, great-grandfather, they had a suitcase often. And basically today they're very British, his family, but originally they British, his family, but originally they had came to England as um I believe from both of them came from they had close relationships with Salant Mov. They would liter on him. One ended up on the London Bezdon. One ended up as a raving gates head. And they corresponded pretty extensively like thousands. I think it came up like 6,000 pages of correspondence that these two Rabanim had with different literatur. One of them's name was Rab Rhinoitz. One of his name was Reb Susman K. I don't of his name was Reb Susman K. I don't think either one of them is very famous today. Um but this this uh retiree collected his the suitcase full of from his great-grandparents and he I don't think it was ever published in these these various chas that they had what he did is he put out a book called the rabbi suitcase where he just in chapters he codifies what the topics of discussion were like what were the tum what were the things that were going on at that time that people were writing about back and forth a bunch of them are about aunes you know shipwrecks and

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1. 0:01Okay, good morning. Welcome back. Um, over bin is manim, I came across a book called…
2. 3:07in 18 I wrote it down in in uh 1831 he took a ship called the…
3. 6:12evolution that happened in their time and in their place happened in their time and in…
4. 9:16let's not trust or give any credence to the of the the Greeks and the and…
5. 12:20how what I'm believing now will be true. It becomes like a religion. It becomes very…
6. 15:58relate to it's a straightforward in a few places the discusses themes in the end of…
7. 19:04things separate he didn't put in the back of the ash on on you know he…
8. 22:09from there. He writes that he uh he heard about woolly mammoths who were dug up…
9. 25:25so didn't destroy it. He sent it to say in someone else's house. He says, "When…
10. 28:37stars but I don't know. So over there this is the disciple writer says whatever it…

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