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New Series! Emunah, A shiur for Young Women: What and Why We Believe, part 1

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Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer

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so so the um we're going to talk about emuna and why we what we believe and why we believe in it tonight there's going to be um several different ways of uh explaining what we believe and tonight we're going to deal with the first way there are going to be about 10 ways and some of them are are kind of repetitive but some of them are very different and the first the first way he gives here is uh of the foreign is a basic premise which anybody should understand and that's he's going to explain uh Hashem was killed in the uh in the Holocaust reconstration in his um pamphlet and explanations of uh uh examples of explaining agarita in a simple ways that what was plant what was what that was printed in the safer covers and the second Obamas Mr Graham or Marshall and that which we see in Brackets is what rabbit Surya added to rebelkano's words okay so now we're starting sir when people deny that there's a God people say there's no ocean right does that take place in their minds or in their hearts oh is it a intellectual thing what's an emotional thing so he says it says Don't Follow Your Hearts words don't follow in a bad way wear your hearts lead you and Kimora Bravo says that that means uh uh uh not believing in Hashem Minos means in translated English as heresy heresy means not to believe in Hashem so there's an obvious question here which is the reason why people are Heretics is because something is wrong with their

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  1. 0:00so so the um we're going to talk about emuna and why we what we believe
  2. 3:28in me how can I command you to believe in me but the rambam says no
  3. 6:45people who uh who stumbled and they didn't believe in Hashem closest the third question so
  4. 9:58if I was never educated for that nobody ever taught it to me nobody told me
  5. 13:42and he thinks that somebody did this by tossing ink on a paper um uh uh
  6. 16:57and I believe it doesn't have a designer that's all we've said so far make sense
  7. 20:16um um if if I mean she was making that comparison then but the thing is
  8. 24:01foreign how can you say that such an amazing machine came into being on its own
  9. 27:16think we we sometimes we think we do things because they're reasonable and rational but we're
  10. 30:30everything has to do with the extent of the desire if it's if it's weaker strong

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