Did Judaism Get It Right? - Rabbi Benzion Klatzko - Library of Torah Thought

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[Music] hello everyone last class we spoke about the the argument for a creator versus randomness and we really went heavily into the sciences and we are now moving on to the question of religion now we started with god because without god religion would be meaningless honestly meaningless uh meaningless uh i i once heard a uh a sort of a very liberal rabbi saying well i don't know if you know if the ten plagues ever happened or the jews ever split the sea but even so the morals the lessons it teaches us are really valuable i was in l.a and this rabbi said this and like what are you talking about if it didn't happen then the torah made it up so then the torah can't be trusted because when you make up myths when you because when you make up myths when you make up legends and they didn't happen so then you lose your reliability you lose your credibility so first there's god create creator and then we're up to religion now what i'm going to do this is going to be a very sort of academic presentation so follow it's not going to be difficult to follow but there are steps so step number one uh if there is religion remember we said last week either believer agnostic or

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1. 0:02[Music] hello everyone last class we spoke about the the argument for a creator versus randomness…
2. 6:07step number three were created by creator for a purpose we weren't created for no purpose…
3. 11:43as free agents you and i will see whether uh whether the uh conclusion that they…
4. 17:16him and says this is the prophecy from god there were many prophets before you musa…
5. 22:56our earlier books but even let's say there was a man named jesus that existed although…
6. 28:31you believe what you believe versus the other options out there okay now we are up…
7. 34:09then they're like whoa how did you do that wow do you believe spread the word…
8. 39:45the torah two and a half million people from the word go and then something amazing…
9. 45:22they do they just say we are the new testament islam actually says judaism and christianity…
10. 50:57that's 2000 years that was the end of the second temple but we have remnants archaeology…

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