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Podcast: The Great Sources with Rabbi Shnayor Burton
Episode: S7, E1, The Guide of the Perplexed, Creation, 01: Why Creation from Nothing is so Central to Religion
Description: This shiur was generously sponsored by Mr. Ari Schwartz. This series is a project of the Jacob Lights Foundation.
0:00 The Mutakallimun approach to creation and Maimonides' rejection thereof
9:00 The three opinions about how the world follows from God: that of the Torah of Moshe; that of Plato; and that of Aristotle
26:00 The goal of those who follow the Torah of Moshe and Abraham
29:00 The metric to determine what is possible and what is impossible, and how to apply this to creation ex nihilo
35:00 The fundamental difference between a religious person and a philosopher
39:00 Abraham and Moshe and the invention...