Questions tagged [proof-of-torah]
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Arguments for Judaism from the existence of irrational antisemitism
The visibility made possible by social media has exposed, in sharper relief and magnitude, what has always been there - the hugely disproportional (in terms of relative population percentages) and at ...
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Can someone explain how the argument about Torah being reliable due to blockchain-style transmission of information works?
I've been reading a document on Sefaria which claims the following:
The transmission of the Torah of Moses until today has worked in a blockchain style format, creating a trustworthy ledger of ...
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Veracity of the Oral Torah [closed]
A Christian blogger commented:
Rabbinic Judaism also has some relatively unconvincing claims of oral transmission from the past. It claims that its interpretations of the Torah (which are compiled ...
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Are Devarim 4:32-33 an argument from ignorance? If so, why are they often used as a rational basis that Judaism is true?
I have read/heard myriad Rabbis1 cite Devarim 4:32-33:
הֲשָׁמַע עָם קוֹל אֱלֹהִים מְדַבֵּר מִתּוֹךְ־הָאֵשׁ
כַּאֲשֶׁר־שָׁמַעְתָּ אַתָּה וַיֶּחִי׃
Has any people heard the voice of God ...
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Insight into Divine Nature of Torah [closed]
I would like to present a very interesting insight which may help people see the divine nature of the Torah. In order of frequency, the following letters appear in the Torah.
Yud (31,531);
Vav (30513)...
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Native American Traditions and Mass Revelations
In Deuteronomy(4:32-34), two points are made in reassuring Israel that God has not abandoned them. The reader is tasked with searching from one end of the heavens to the other to see if a God ever ...
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What dates were the Talmuds and Midrashes written?
Can we prove what dates in history these texts were written?
Also, do we know exactly when the various Rabbis of these texts lived? What are those dates? Are there disputes about this?
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Midrashic(?) Proof from Design story about overturned inkwell
I believe I read years ago about an instance where a rabbi presented a heretic with a well written poem that he claimed had actually formed accidentally when he overturned his inkwell. I though I had ...
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Chovos Halevavos' Proof from Design
Where (preferably online) is the passage of Rabbeinu Bahya Ibn Paqud in his Chovos Halevavos (in Shaar HaYichud I believe) in which he proves the existence of the Creator by citing a story where a ...
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The Torah's list of animals with one kosher sign
I have a question that has been troubling me for many years and I have never received a satisfactory response.
On March 22, 2005 THE NY Times had an article entitled Religion and Natural History ...
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Do the Jews know the location of the omer of manna?
Do the Jews know the location of the omer of manna? Is there a story? Is it lost? It sure would be helpful in proving God to Atheists.
Then Moses said, “This is the thing which the LORD has ...
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Potential issue with Theory on Divine Origins of Judaism?
The core of a theory is that since Judaism is based on events witnessed by something like 3,000,000 Jews, it is true, while other religions rely on an individual or a few individuals who experienced a ...
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Is there any proof of the existence of the soul?
Judaism asserts that a human being is a composite of a body and a spiritual soul (see Talmud Sanhedrin 91b for example) which lives on after death.
Is there any way to prove the existence of the soul?...
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How can I respond to challenges to the Kuzari argument for the transmission of Torah from Sinai?
The Kuzari's argument for the transmission of Torah from Sinai was extremely convincing when I heard it, and I've read different summaries of it by Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb and Rabbi Leib Keleman (I must ...
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Pressing some common apologetic insights
When trying to show high probability of the real Sinai revelation of the Jewish Torah, people often talk about ideas like these:
It is impossible to fabricate a story and convince a population that ...
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Halachic Relevancy of 'Proving God'
The first halacha in the Mishnah Torah states that you must know for certain that God exists (Yesodei Hatorah 1:1). Does this mean that according to Rambam, God can be proven to exist through ...
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If the Oral Torah is Divine, why are there arguments? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why don’t we just follow the shittah of Moshe Rabeinu?
If the Oral Torah is Divine, how are there arguments in the Mishnah and Gemara?
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How can we be sure that Judaism is true/the truth?
I borrowed (with permission) a question from Ahmed Han, which is:
People of every religion claim that they are the ones in the right
path. Even the people of sects in these religions think that ...
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Archeological proof of Exodus?
Is there empirical proof that the exodus from Egypt and related happenings (like Har Sinai etc) did in fact occur (i.e: Archeological proof)?
I believe in the Torah, but how would you prove to someone ...
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