Q&A Brisk, Astrology, and Bad Thoughts ( Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb )

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i'm an outsider so i i i don't i can only tell you what i've heard about it i haven't practiced it i've never learned the brisk um so what i say is just you know just hearsay about it um the last 400 years has seen a tremendous emphasis on defining central concepts one thing which was always done but a tremendous emphasis on defining concepts emphasis on defining concepts testing out different definitions to see how they fit the way in which the mother's discussions go and thank you very much and particularly building definitions out of theories which are based on very abstract concepts where the distance between the theory itself and the concepts on the ground is quite great which means you need long chains of which means you need long chains of intricate reasoning in order to get from the theories essential concepts to the actual data on the page which offers the promise a very deep explanation of what's going on on the page now if you're looking for depth looking with organization [Music] it's very it's very attractive some people some people are disturbed by the distance between the theory and the data on the page i think it leaves room for a lot of um distorted thinking which doesn't show up because it can be it can be disguised by clever deductions which protect yourself from from uh from uh refutation so there's a certain amount of

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