Rabbi Gil Student Slams Dark Light Star

Rabbi Gil Student defends traditional Judaism against a certain R.D. Gold, who wrote “Bondage of the Mind: How Old Testament Fundamentalism Shackles the Mind and Enslaves the Spirit.” But he does give Gold credit for “utterly demolishing” a favorite proof of Rabbi Gottlieb, a prominent haredi-kiruv lecturer of Dark Light.

[Gold] also utterly demolishes R. Dovid Gottlieb’s so-called proof (also known as “The Kuzari Proof”) for the Torah. Over the past few days, I read the latest updated version of R. Gottlieb’s book. It is not my place to argue in detail with his logic but I found it to be fatally burdened with unstated and unproven assumptions about psychology, sociology and Jewish history.