Emunah, A shiur for Young Men: What and Why We Believe, part 2

What’s said in this shiur

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

okay so um we got it last week up to this paragraph here um said that if you can see the point there's a creator so the logic dictates that created out of purpose and creation and logic dictates that he must have revealed that purpose that he must have revealed that purpose to either some person or some Nation and therefore if you have the capacity to do so you would want to research is there such a person is there such a nation who claims that God gave them their directions and in fact you would find that there is such a nation the Jewish Nation and that you would know that the Jewish nation is actually the only nation which claims to have had a direct encounter on claims to have had a direct encounter on its totality with God which we call Mount Sinai so therefore what the um what you come to what you conclude also because that Judaism must be emotional authentic religion all other religions don't have that kind of claim for a massive Revelation at the beginning of their establishment so therefore even though all isil prove to you on the basic complexity of the world is that basic complexity of the world is that there must be a designer for the world unless it also follows that because of world's complex and it had a designer had that Designer had a purpose and that he would reveal that purpose and then if I look for who has the purpose of revealed to them I'll find the Jewish people and so he said of course until relatively recently a person living in a distant island in the Pacific or above the Arctic Circle there's no way of finding that out because they couldn't co-travel and

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3. 6:47these people want to be Masters stay insane you want to say Hashem doesn't dictate my…
4. 10:27somebody good for Samantha which is good told him do this because it's good he said…
5. 14:11achieving the moon looking at the wisdom which we find in nature in other words really…
6. 17:46study of fish so the um again recovers to say all these things are necessary in…
7. 21:36there's no problem learning secular secular studies secular studies which add your appreciation of question was…
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9. 28:55and that you can see it in any liquid which you heat up that the uh…
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