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"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-e...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 [email protected].
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"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-e...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 [email protected].
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"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-e...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 [email protected].
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This lecture is a project of the Jacob Lights Foundation
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"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-e...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 [email protected].
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Highlights:4:00 Knowing Hashem and seeing Hashem
7:15 Moshe sought moral knowledge of God's ways, not metaphysical knowledge of God's nature
10:30 Moshe sought to understand why some righteous people suffer, and other righteous people prosper; why some evildoers suffer, and other evildoers prosper
16:30 Moshe couldn't understand the goodness of God as it is manifest in the universe; the prophets could understand it
18:15 Completely righteous people don't suffer, whereas incompletely righteous people do suffer
22:00 What completely righteous people believe to be right will occur to them
26:00 The answer to the question about the suffering of the righteous was acceptable for the prophets but not for Moshe
29:30 Is God good if He is good only to the extent that people are completely righteous?
32:30 Seeing Hashem's back means seeing the end of His actions, in the future; seeing His face means seeing Him in the present
36:00 A person should emulate Hashem if and only if His actions are knownThis lecture series is a project of the Jacob Lights Foundation.
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Highlights:0:00 The position of our Rebbe, the wicked King Manasseh, that idolatry is appropriate
5:00 Manasseh's case against the Isaiah in which he charged the prophet with heresy and executed him for that crime
8:45 Can Hashem be seen or not? Moshe's stance and the prophets' stance
12:00 Can Hashem be known or not? Moshe's stance and the prophets' stance
20:30 Moshe uses words differently than all the prophets do, and is therefore termed "not a man of words"
24:15 The contradiction between the Torah and the Prophets regarding the importance of sacrificial worship (https://open.substack.com/pub/shnayor/p/ee-and-r-3_4-between-the-torah-and?r=111271&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web)
29:45 The prophets do something fundamentally different from Moshe and the Torah
34:30 Moshe's request to see God indicates that Moshe is supposed to see God
36:30 The last of the books of the Torah implies that Hashem can be known
38:15 Idolatry is wrong only for those who are familiar with Hashem and know Him
43:00 Manasseh's argument why idolatry is appropriate according to the Torah itself
46:00 Manasseh considered the Torah to be aspirational until such time that its great potential is unlocked
48:00 Manasseh considered avoiding idolatry to be akin to rushing the end of times before we're ready for it
51:15 The unrequited overture to the Nation of Israel at the time of the Exodus offering them knowledge of Hashem
54:30 The Torah has always been aspirational
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"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-e...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 [email protected].
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This lecture series is a project of כרם בין תורה לחכמה, generously sponsored by R' Yoel Werzberger
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2:15 What is achieved by humans thinking in non-human terms?4:15 Humans are the most important aspect of reality; viewing the world from God's perspective involves viewing humanity accurately8:30 The actions are God can be understood only by understanding humans12:00 God is good only if humans are good16:00 By bringing things back to God's perspective, we simultaneously value the way things are and remain open to progress18:00 The tension between progressivism and conservativism 22:00 God's will as the ultimate constant that allows for infinite progress30:45 The Golden Mean as the way of God33:10 Finding law within human behavior brings human behavior back to God35:45 A person cannot know the ways of God without knowing himself37:25 The prophets call God righteous and thereby make Him righteous, since humans, His ultimate creation, will be inspired to be righteous, making Him righteous40:00 The difference between the philosophers and the prophets about whether human perfection involves intellectual perfection or moral perfection47:20 What makes the Torah divine: the connection between ordering society and thinking about God
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"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-e...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 [email protected].
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This lecture series is a project of כרם בין תורה לחכמה, generously sponsored by R' Yoel Werzberger00:20 How to achieve the ideal society is the most burning practical question of humanity and is also the fundamental subject of the Torah3:00 One who cannot reason political questions from first principles cannot understand the Torah4:15 To agree with the Torah is to understand the Torah7:00 Judaism begins with the divine command to Abraham to establish the good society along with instructions how to do so9:30 The notion of the land's holiness is universal and isn't limited to the Land of Israel 12:00 The Torah's approach to achieving the ideal society https://www.ebay.com/itm/374477700772https://shnayor.substack.com/p/7_414:30 Viewing the world from God's perspective17:30 The Torah model for humanity is that humanity should become as a race of angels18:30 Philosophy's approach to establishing the ideal society20:00 The Guide of the Perplexed 2:40 on the natural need for law24:00 Maimonides implies that law is not necessary because people naturally do things that are wrong, but only because people need to function within society27:45 If it's human nature to be cruel, then we can't assert that it's wrong to be cruel31:25 The meaning of divine command is that there is a right way to do things beyond following your nature33:30 Maimonidean ethics and the Golden Mean35:30 The function of the Golden Mean in expanding a person's identity to include his society; this is a sensitivity that we can recover41:30 What is the point of thinking for God? What does it add to human success and flourishing? 43:00 What is the relationship between the Torah's approach to achieving the ideal society and Philosophy's approach?44:00 Various possibilities about the nature of the relationship
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"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-e...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 [email protected].
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בעניין קשים גרים כספחת; לא הגלה הקב"ה את ישראל לבין האומות אלא כדי שיתוספו עליהם גרים; גרים מעכבים את המשיח; האם יש גרים שיש לקבלם ולא לדחות אותם.
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This lecture series is a project of כרם בין תורה לחכמה, generously sponsored by R' Yoel Werzberger.
0:00 Man is both a composite of body and soul, and pure soul
2:30 The question of the eternity or createdness of the world underpins the two different ways of viewing human beings
7:00 Seth was similar to Adam, who was the only man created ex nihilo and therefore uniquely spiritual
11:00 Why bodily affairs matter
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This lecture series is a project of כרם בין תורה לחכמה, generously sponsored by R' Yoel Werzberger.
00:30 Moses perceived the whole of the universe, which is "all of God's goodness"
2:15 In order to understand the true nature of reality, one has to transcend the body
10:00 Was Moses' great perception the whole of the created universe or God's transcendence?
14:00 One cannot understand God's transcendence without understanding the whole of the created universe; and one cannot understand the whole of the created universe without understanding God's transcendence
21:00 What is actually meant by "God saw that it was good"?
24:00 The world is right but by no metric
29:30 To see the goodness of the world is to be blinded
33:30 Everyone perceives evil since they perceive reality through the lens of the body
35:00 The perception through the lens of the body is also important and a part of nature
42:00 The hamoni in the Guide is not the other guy – everyone has some hamonism within themselves
44:00 The tension between whether man is defined by his intellect or by his body as well
45:00 How to prevent evil actions – through knowledge or character training?
48:00 Does human perfection involve intellectual perception or doing good?
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This lecture series is a project of כרם בין תורה לחכמה, generously sponsored by R' Yoel Werzberger.
Highlights:00:00 The meaning of "good" according to Crescas; Plato and Aristotle on the meaning of "good"; Maimonides' strange silence on the issue
18:30 Maimonides shifts theodicy from ethics to metaphysics
20:00 Privation as a principle of reality
31:00 The dynamic interplay between being and non-being
37:00 Understanding the nature of being is how beings learn to appreciate being
50:30 Why do all humans think there is evil if there really isn't any?
54:00 Knowledge and the forms are eternal
57:00 Privation and its association with matter
59:30 Humans can't help but see evil since they are embodied
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This lecture series is a project of כרם בין תורה לחכמה, generously sponsored by R' Yoel Werzberger. Highlights:
1:00 Goodness is what is real, and evil is privation
3:20 The goodness of the universe is the foundational notion of the whole Torah
9:00 Are the masses of today similar to the masses in the past?
11:30 Existence is good as judged by all existents
14:45 Creation ex Nihilo and evil as privation
16:45 Non-existence is evil only relative to existence
28:30 Confronting evil is confronting the nothingness that preceded Creation, and induces fear of God due to its absurdity
33:00 Confronting evil is confronting the notion that perhaps nothing at all should exist; fear of God is the antidote to evil
38:00 When a person judges existence to be good, existence is judging itself; God does not "exist," and therefore He doesn't judge things to be good
46:00 The Torah talks about God as if he is part of the same system of existence as everything else
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"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-e...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 [email protected].
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