HeyJaredThe Great Sources with Rabbi Shnayor Burton
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S7, E20, The Guide of the Perplexed, the Closing Chapters, 04: Know, My Son — The Parable of the Parable's Interpretation Shnayor Burton Shnayor Burton 306 subscribers Analytics Edit video (opens the original)
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1:00 The parable of the sultan and its two interpretations 4:00 The alternative path to God that does not involve studying philosophy nor human perfection 8:00 Rambam gives the interpretation of the parable and then declares that it is not a true interpretation 10:30 Parables have interpretations that are not completely true 12:30 Shlomo went from parable to parable, and likewise the Rambam 14:45 The power of a parable lies in its appeal to the imagination and the body, which stands in tension w
S7, E19, The Guide of the Perplexed, the Closing Chapters, 03: Two Roads to the Inner Court of the King (opens the original)
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0:00 The parable of the sultan in his palace 9:30 The interpretation of the parable: the Torah track to reach knowledge of God 12:45 The second meaning of the parable: the scientific track to reach knowledge of God 20:25 The second meaning stands in tension with and contradicts the first 27:00 Rambam wanted his student to learn things in their proper order 31:00 How a person could reach certainty about divine matters without studying the propaedeutic sciences 35:45 Some noble souls have God-give
S7, E18, The Guide of the Perplexed, the Closing Chapters, 02: The Birth of a Nation Under Divine Providence (opens the original)
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00:45 The turn and the tension in III:51, and its parallel in III:54, about whether the service of God involves turning away from this world or engaging with it 4:15 A new reason for all of the mitzvahs that runs counter to the reasons given earlier in the Guide 16:15 The contradiction in III:54: Is the true perfection of man intellectual or practical? 28:00 Why does Rambam think we cannot be like Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov and Moshe? 40:30 Only the founders of the nation can be engaged with this
S7, E17, The Guide of the Perplexed, the Closing Chapters, 01: The Perfect Life and the Perfect Death (opens the original)
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