Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser - Jewish Thought: Is There a G-d Dispute?

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

ok so this we're going to handle today we're going to handle the three biggest burning issues of Judaism in general and and really the ultimate issue is why is this relevant to me in my life why is this really make a difference and number one is is there a god number two is the Torah really God's will you know there's other people think God wrote books you know why is ours the definitive word of God as opposed to theirs right and and number three is even if you say these are that there really is a God and you say that sign I really happen who says the transmission of Torah is an accurate transmission right and get those three questions I think we'll do this in three parts we'll see how far we get with each part and we'll take it from there okay I like to go first of all with God question I'd like to go with the the simplest answer of all the answers it was brought by the rambam but we'll we'll make it especially clear and the simplest of all the answers is that we're handling three questions here is their God GOG of the turret mount sinai and three is how do we know the transmission of what is a Jew and how does that you live his life accurate today so we're going to go with the simplest understanding of God and that is that the that the world didn't create itself it doesn't stand to any reason or any logic for us to think the world created itself we know the world was created we know there was a time so to speak where there was no world whether

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1. 0:19ok so this we're going to handle today we're going to handle the three biggest burning…
2. 5:53any existence he's pure that's what I'm saying where any concept you've ever had a God…
3. 11:50itself none of that exists none of that existed either right not exceeding exists in space-time…
4. 17:45the simplest thing is to say that this world was created there is none no even…
5. 23:17outside of time and space you can't observe something outside sendspace so you're relegated to theory…
6. 29:03divine and it and it does say that there was a beginning this is Bray shoes…
7. 35:24got anyone else picking up in the radar yoni's fighting you were to the rest of…
8. 40:53deity or any other thing who said anything about other powers whoa like the tour itself…
9. 46:13or we wouldn't be having this discussion right now here on earth it set something in…
10. 51:57looked at both ways but either way you're in here at the beginning and therefore the…

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