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Join us as we study the monumental work of Maimonides, The Guide of the Perplexed. Let Maimonides speak to us in a language that we can understand, about issues that continue to perplex us in the 21st century.
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Guide For the Perplexed - Lecture 136: Part 3 Chapter 51b (opens the original)
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Rambam discusses the providence of God that one experiences when one is totally devoted to the pursuit of the truth of God, and the misfortune that can only happen when one separates oneself from that devotion. We also learn the meaning of death by a "kiss" from God.
Guide For the Perplexed - Lecture 135: Part 3 Chapter 51a (opens the original)
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Rambam begins his final chapters with his famous parable of the palace and he gives guidance to his student on the true nature of worship of God.
Guide For the Perplexed - Lecture 134: Part 3 Chapter 50 (opens the original)
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Rambam describes why the Torah includes passages about events that don't seem to be important.
Guide For the Perplexed - Lecture 133: Part 3 Chapter 49c (opens the original)
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Rambam describes his understanding of the reason for circumcision. He concludes his discussion of the reasons for the commandments of the Torah by explaining that the reason why many of the Torah's commands don't seem to make sense to us is because we don't understand the circumstances of the world in which the Torah was given.
Guide For the Perplexed - Lecture 132: Part 3 Chapter 49b (opens the original)
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Rambam explains the logic behind the sexual prohibitions in the Torah, and the importance of keeping your work and not trying to cheat women out of the money they are due.
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