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Podcast: The Great Sources with Rabbi Shnayor Burton
Episode: S6, E8 Shemona Perakim; Was Moshe an Angel?
Description:
This shiur was generously sponsored in memory of R' Moshe Chaim ben Yitzchak David.
0:00 The importance of the Golden Mean in Maimonides' thought
4:15 What makes the Torah divine?
7:45 Is it possible for a person to be absolutely perfect?
10:00 Maimonides considers a perfect human being to be not a human being but rather an angel
14:00 How a person can become an angel
17:45 How the perfect person can transfer himself from the angelic realm back to the human realm
22:00 People who have no virtues are not human beings but animals
25:00 The behavior of humans that became angels
28:00 For 40 days...