Jews and Non-Jews: A Jewish Philosophical View - Rabbi Dovid Gottleib

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loving kindness and justice how it plays a role in creation of the world, imagine the world there is a an issue which is interesting to its own right but it's also relevant here and that is the difference between Jews and non-Jews and the way it appears to the outsider who's not well educated the Jewish worldview has a um has a hierarchy that humanity is divided into two groups and they'll call them the in-group and the out groupoup. It's a question of us and them which is supposed to be poisonous. And the idea that there is a creator who runs the world with both kindness and justice is something which seems to be to them anyway incompatible with the idea that humanity has upper group and the lower group. It smacks of the the um cast system in in India. It smacks of hereditary nobility in European countries. And it's supposed to be something which is objectionable. Now, um I want to set the the the uh the educational system or the the the philosophical system straight first and then we'll talk about in more detail about how the categories apply. Uh if you look at the first part of the of the way of God by Lucato, he traces this out in detail. It turns out that the two tiers of humanity is dead against God's interests and God tried repeatedly to overcome it and to institute homogeneous humanity and it was only the unwillingness of human beings which defeated God's purpose.

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3. 10:47would create us as robots to do what he wants automatically. The contrary, we have to…
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7. 33:02superior to the capabilities of other people? Another is, is the significance of what they do…
8. 38:41that group? Well, let's see. If post Sinai pe non-Jews do convert to Judaism, certainly. No,…
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