The 13 Principles of Faith. Hashem Is One. Series Part 2

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

of indirectness. Um, but it's not as if the Torah says, "Well, if it's indirect, you get off and it's okay." You know, if you want to advance people, just, you know, throw the ball against the wall and when it comes out from the wall hits him, >> fine. It's okay to do that. It's not okay to do that. It's wrong to do it. It's forbidden. And in what we call, you would have to pay. >> But why isn't he obligated? >> So, uh, What I'm what I'm indicating is that what you check what you collect in court, what you allow the court to make a decision and have the the executive branch then force the person to pay has a lot of variables. One is that you're going to have to basis on testimony and indirectness has degrees. There's uh one degree of indirectness or second degree of indirectness and those things are hard to quantify. So it could be that just in practical terms it's going to be very difficult to settle cases like that and very difficult to to pin them down. Groma is a very I say it's a very broad category and it's has subies that aren't obvious whereas lawit indirect >> or they're satisfied with with evidence that we're not satisfied with uh you can't convict a person of a uh crime, serious crime, unless you have two eyewitnesses. Circumstantial evidence is never enough. In American court, circumstantial evidence is enough all the time. All you need is beyond a reasonable doubt. And reasonable is a psychological sociological term. You know, how reasonable are you? I'm not as reasonable as I am. So um that could be in many people's judgment the result of circumstantial evidence. The Torah doesn't want doesn't

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2. 5:18question. >> Yeah, I guess. >> Okay. Shalom, you know, being complete in all ways of…
3. 10:00So then each one is a spouse. But the is unique. He's not like anything else.…
4. 14:49And indeed that that means it's a composite even though you can't split them off with…
5. 19:34you could just see that. Or this from a modern point of view. Well, you haven't…
6. 24:24century said to think that you don't really see the ball is the worst mistake in…
7. 29:23certain things that we see in the world seem to be the product of intelligent agency…
8. 34:07going to use an intelligent agent to explain the existence of this complex thing, then I…
9. 39:03complicated. Uh and that's something that you can say that you know. But if there are…
10. 43:50you predict is some will go through the top slit, they'll be caught in a bunch…

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