Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb - Jewish Philosophy: Why Did God Create the World - Part 2

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two ideas that we mentioned over the last couple of days and I want to to explore them one very brief briefly at the beginning we talk about God's purpose in running the world creating the world is for the sake of realizing um goodness benevolence doing good and by the way tonight's topic is possibility of altruism is altruism really possible um the study of how God runs the world is endless it's really infinitely deep and connected from time to time you get an Insight which reminds you that uh superficial appearances aren't always accurate and if you push or extend your view you can get a a better picture and it's a picture that reveals how God's purpose for the creation plays itself out in sh we're going to read the Book of Ruth Book of Ruth starts by wasn't the times when the people judged their judges and that the commentary say means the general corruption that they didn't accept Authority and Leadership everybody every man from sort of like describing democracy I guess no I didn't say that and um that was a terrible situation and then it says there was a famine and that famine triggers the rest of the story question is what's the relationship between this General breakdown of respect for authority on the one hand and the famine I think a natural understanding and one that I certainly took seriously until they before yesterday is that because it was a

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