The Status of Interpretation - Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb

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

yesterday we were talking about seeing with hands seeing within this person sees with his hands and that's supposed to be somehow perfectly okay this can't be any critique of the phrase the phrase seeing with hands now first of all let's register some obvious differences between seeing with hands and seeing with eyes seeing with hands requires touch you have to be in contact with a thing see with eyes doesn't require being in contact with the thing that you see with your eyes you could take in a whole scene with your hands at best you could take in one or two objects at a time you look at a scene and almost instantly you have comprehensive knowledge of the scene with a scene with your hands you kind of feel the object you may take time to feel all the surfaces of the object on top the bottom and the sides it's a it's a time consuming process which means it requires memory in a way that vision does not what about images to be seen to have no feel like what's printed in a book you can't feel out you can't see that with your hands you can only see that with your eyes seeing with your hands is implemented by the nerves of touch in your hands seeing with eyes is implemented by the retina and the optic nerve so the physical input that implementation of the two are very different see with your eyes is vastly vastly useful to human be see what the hands can't cover one percent of the ground of seeing with us you can only see with your hands you are dramatically dramatically handicapped so there are

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