The Great Sources with Rabbi Shnayor Burton Rabbi Shnayor Burton
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- Religion & Spirituality
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Lecture series in Jewish Philosophy.
What was the purpose of Creation? What is man's place in the world? What are prophecy and prayer about? What is the significance of Shabbos and the Promised Land?
Explore these fundamental questions of Judaism from their sources, and become familiar with the systems developed by the great Torah thinkers: R' Saadiah Gaon, R' Yehuda HaLevi, R' Bachya ibn Paquda, Rambam and the school of the Mekubalim.
Opportunities for sponsorship of podcasts are available. Rabbi Burton can be reached at: oros.yaakov@gmail.com
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S5, E20 Exodus, Exile and Redemption, Sec. 2, Chapter 14: Funding the Divine: The Moral Foundation of Temple Economics
"Exodus, Exile and Redemption" is a study of the profound significance of Judaism's history.
Written essays are published bi-weekly here:
https://shnayor.substack.com/s/from-exodus-to-exile-to-redemption
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S5, E19 Exodus, Exile and Redemption, Sec. 2, Chapter 13: The Temple Yaakov Didn’t Build
"Exodus, Exile and Redemption" is a study of the profound significance of Judaism's history.
Written essays are published bi-weekly here:
https://shnayor.substack.com/s/from-exodus-to-exile-to-redemption
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S7, E4, The Guide of the Perplexed, Creation, 04: Creation ex Nihilo as the Essence of the Torah's Teaching
This shiur was generously sponsored by Mr. Ari Schwartz. This series is a project of the Jacob Lights Foundation.
Highlights:
0:00 Abraham's project to strip away divinity from the universe and its association with Creation ex Nihilo
7:00 Divine bodies
11:00 Overview of the Guide 2:25
17:00 Maimonides' seven questions on the Torah
23:30 The middle question suggests that mitzvahs have no reason, contrary to Maimonides' opinion
29:00 That God has an unfathomable intent is the foundation of the Torah; Torah is irreducible to reason
34:00 If Aristotle's model of reality were to be proven, the Torah would be eventually abandoned, because if Torah is reducible to reason, it would be dispensable
45:30 The reasonableness of idolatry
49:15 Why is idolatry reasonable if it's based on the eternity of the universe?
51:00 The project of the Torah to uproot idolatry is the project of promoting the doctrine of Creation ex Nihilo and God's unfathomable intent in general
55:00 Abraham and Moses brought back God's intent into history -
S5, E18 Exodus, Exile and Redemption, Sec. 2, Chapter 12: The Moral Limits of “An Eye for an Eye”
"Exodus, Exile and Redemption" is a study of the profound significance of Judaism's history.
Written essays are published bi-weekly here:
https://shnayor.substack.com/s/from-exodus-to-exile-to-redemption
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S7, E3, The Guide of the Perplexed, Creation, 03: Is Creation ex Nihilo Known via Philosophy or Prophecy?
This shiur was generously sponsored by Mr. Ari Schwartz. This series is a project of the Jacob Lights Foundation.
2:00 Passages in the Guide that indicate that Creation ex Nihilo is known through revelatory prophecy
8:15 How Abraham reached knowledge of God through contemplating the heavens
19:30 Was Abraham an Aristotelian philosopher?
25:00 Prophecy revealed the truth that Creation ex Nihilo is the proper belief, not that Creation ex Nihilo is a scientific, cosmological fact
44:45 Since we believe that Abraham and Moshe had divine revelation, their personal philosophical speculations don't concern us
48:30 Maimonides' story about how Abraham discovered God is a deliberate anachronism
52:30 The project of the Guide of the Perplexed and how the perplexity shifts dramatically when it comes to Creation -
S5, E17 Exodus, Exile and Redemption, Sec. 2, Chapter 11: The Development of Yaakov’s Character
"Exodus, Exile and Redemption" is a study of the profound significance of Judaism's history.
Written essays are published bi-weekly here:
https://shnayor.substack.com/s/from-exodus-to-exile-to-redemption
Please subscribe!
This series is a project of the Jacob Lights Foundation. To support this and other ongoing projects of the foundation, please consider becoming a paid subscriber to the Substack newsletter or making a donation via Zelle to jacoblightsfoundation@gmail.com.
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