Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb - Jewish Philosophy: Questions and Answers - 31

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the central problem that I'm having so far with my journey into Judaism or more observant Judaism is understanding it's very clear and easy for me to understand how the larger kind of more understandable concepts in Judaism like being kind to another charity honoring your parents letting you know was just the way equality for people all those things promotes an idea of us as Jews being a light unto the nations far less clear to me how some of the more minuscule details that seem like they are very difficult to understand what knowing if the mezuzah should be pointed straight up or if it should be lying flat down or whether the paragraphs that are running on the parchment need to be side-by-side or one above the other it's very difficult to understand how that promotes well holiness in the world and how does that promote my own closest to God okay I think you're touching on maybe more than one quite deep issue let me circle the issue a little bit with some tidbits that are designed just to to provoke a certain wider lens and then i'll see if i could say something systemic but i think we need to do justice what you're asking would take more time that i can that I can afford the Q&A someone once said that Aristotle was probably not counting Jewish scholarship maybe the greatest thinker in the history of the world he created whole new Sciences I'm a logician he created logic at a whole cloth it wasn't all the figures logic beforehand and meta physics and astronomy and botany classification it was really an extraordinarily creative and deep thinker he liked to crucial instruments a microscope in a telescope if you restrict your field of vision to a particular realm and use that to orient yourself and to define what's real and what's significant then any

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