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Podcast: The Great Sources with Rabbi Shnayor Burton
Episode: S6, E3 Shemona Perakim; How to Properly Change the Torah and how Maimonides Once Did so Himself
Description:
This shiur was generously sponsored in memory of R' Moshe Chaim ben Yitzchak David.
Highlights:
The tension at the heart of being a human
The divine intellect
The honor of one's Maker is his own intellect
Who can bend the Law
The laws of Chazal are also from God and become part and parcel of the divine Torah
When Maimonides himself bent the Law, and how he viewed himself as a divine legislator
Maimonides bent the Law so that he shouldn't develop bad character traits
The one who can say what the Torah is all about is...