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Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb - Verification of the Torah Part 3 Cut 1 of 4

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Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb

A philosophical lecture on the verification of the Torah by Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb.

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  1. 0:02first we argue that we're not looking for proofs absolute certainty infallibility those things are impossible…
  2. 1:02by our experience we learn that some sources are reliable and some sources are not reliable…
  3. 2:37national experience means every person in the nation at that prior time the ancestry every person…
  4. 4:11very strong positive empirical evidence that's what we did so far are we together so far…
  5. 5:43extraordinary evidence i think there's a lot to recommend that when someone claims something happened which…
  6. 7:16when we say miracle to crucial word here is we what do we mean when we…
  7. 8:52chiseled in stone we aren't so hypebound that our picture of nature is uh trumps every…
  8. 10:24around to say well that's what the laws of nature used to say but guess what…
  9. 11:57visiting china two thousand years ago is there an extended visit talks to people and uh…
  10. 13:30gosh we haven't seen it but these are they seem to be reasonable people and reliable…

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