Ancient Jewish Wisdom on UFOs, Aliens and Other Worlds

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

Monday afternoon national shear. Welcome everyone. We're continuing the subject the amazing topic of UFOs, extraterrestrial beings, and space travel. Contemporary halakhic analysis. Uh this is a very interesting topic, very contemporary topic. Actually, this past week the government started a new site. It's called alien aliens among you. And they wanted people to think that there are extraterrestrial beings, but they're not referring to that. They're referring to illegal aliens. So, I just want to clarify. This topic is we're not referring to illegal aliens. These are legal aliens, but not wanted aliens. We're talking about extraterrestrial life, life from on other planets. Last week we saw two conflicting opinions. We saw on the one hand the opinion um of the commentary on the Sefer Yetzirah from Rabbi Judah Barceloni, who definitely acknowledge the possibility of life on other planets, intelligent life on other planets. And he even seems to have acknowledged that maybe it's possible that there is a Torah out there. On the other hand, we have the opinion of Hasdai Crescas. And he says um that in his opinion he does not accept the possibility of life on other planets. So, we saw these two conflicting views. Um I I'm sorry. Rabbi Hasdai Crescas [clears throat] also, in his opinion, he said there's nothing in according to a Jewish theology that precludes the possibility of life on other worlds. So, we have the opinion of Hasdai Crescas, the opinion and the very first opinion

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1. 0:00Monday afternoon national shear. Welcome everyone. We're continuing the subject the amazing topic of UFOs, extraterrestrial…
2. 3:13he he is of the opinion that he never wanted to believe that our world is…
3. 7:07He was born in 1654. Be it as it may, he once gave a drasha that…
4. 10:46be they planets or fixed in the eighth sphere, are worlds containing all kinds of living…
5. 13:56learn an in-between view. This is the opinion of the Safer HaBris, written by Rav Pinchas…
6. 17:37He says, Each one has infinite number of worlds. And then he cites the a proof…
7. 21:25The name of the safer is >> [cough] >> Mase Tuvia of Reb Tuvia Harofe. Let's…
8. 24:44and morality. Namely, there seems to be some views that this life on other planets may…
9. 28:28entertained the possibility of life on other planets. After all, we're the center of the universe.…
10. 32:20he says that even though we believe that we are philosophically the center of the universe…

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