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The 13 Principles of Faith. Hashem Is Not Physical. Series Part 4

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Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb

A philosophical discussion on the nature of Hashem from Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb.

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  1. 0:00on the camera. >> Yeah, okay. >> Okay. >> You see it going? >> Yeah, the…
  2. 2:31And the rabbi said to them two things here. Number one, that those words are metaphors.…
  3. 5:04this you can say, you can communicate without yet committing yourself as to whether that something…
  4. 7:37will get. And hope that eventually they come to appreciate actually what they're doing. They get…
  5. 10:42to a shepherd shepherd shepherd in his flock, he's describing his actions. Not describing his what…
  6. 13:16Now, I hope that this fellow from Russia does his talk about facts, and he does…
  7. 15:50happened. That was just an open scientific question. How do the stars shine? How do they…
  8. 18:53knowing how to defeat the saber-toothed tiger so you don't die before you reproduce, and so…
  9. 21:23Doesn't have the the characteristics of an ape's mind, or a mouse's mind, or a fly's…
  10. 23:58Unguided accidental process. Selection that happens after they are As someone put it, it's not the…

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