Discovery started as a week long program in Israel, then was adapted to a weekend long program in America, then into a day long program, and now into a 3 hour seminar. They said they did the condensing by speaking very quickly.
The seminar basically attempts to present us with enough information to answer for ourselves the following question “Is the Torah written by man (or men) or G-d?”
The seminar started by talking about how the Mossad verifies messages from its operatives. They look for 5 things:
- Identifying Information
- Outside Verification
- Codes
- Transmission
- Control
The Mossad will (according to the host) go ahead with a mission if three of these are present, all five being present would mean they are more sure of the authenticity of this message than “you’re sure that your mother is your mother”.
The seminar then goes on to address each of these five criteria and show how it relates to the Torah.
Some sections were more well done than others, but over all I don’t see how a “non believer” cold leave the event without at least questioning their beliefs. Of course looking at the audience, I don’t think there were too many “non-believers” there.
My favourite part were the many claims the Torah makes that no human at the time could have possibly known. For example, that there is only one animal that has split hooves but does not chew its cud (the pig). Or that fish with scales also have fins.
All in all, $10 well spent.
I’ll talk about some of the specifics as I learn more about them in coming weeks.
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