Several questions in faith

Hello Rabbi Michael, it is important for me to say that I very much connect with your rationality and I very much enjoy listening to you. I have 4 questions for you.

1. What do you think of Spinoza’s perception of God? Do you mean, from Spinoza’s perspective, what created the universe if not God? (As I understood it, he perceives the object as its own cause, meaning that the tree is its own cause. I didn’t understand what the logic in that was?)

2. And how was the Oral Torah also given at Mount Sinai? In my opinion, this does not make sense at all. Let’s say it was given, how did the entire people manage to remember it orally and pass it on word for word throughout the generations? And the same goes for the five books of the Torah. Do you think that some of the verses were compiled/written by humans? Because I perceive the entire Bible as a human creation.

3. And what is your general opinion of Spinoza as a philosopher?

4. And have you read Yuval Steinitz’s book “A Scientific Logical Missile to God and Back”? And if so, what do you think? Thanks!

PS I would be more than happy for you to do a podcast together.