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Podcast: The Great Sources with Rabbi Shnayor Burton
Episode: S6, E1 Shemona Perakim; Avos as Training to be a Divine Legislator
Description: The video shiur is here
Highlights:
Rambam begins by referencing the author of the Mishnah, Rabbi Yehudah the Prince
Why should we heed Chazal's laws?
Rambam is hinting to us to think of Avos as the teaching for political leaders and prophets
The differences between Rambam's list of the chain of tradition and the chain given in Avos
The veracity and reliability of the Torah's tradition
What does it take to be a Tanna?
Avos as Rabbi Yehudah the Prince's introduction to Mishnah
Rambam and al-Farabi's "Aphorisms of the Statesman"
Rambam talks...