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Podcast: The Great Sources with Rabbi Shnayor Burton
Episode: S7, E2, The Guide of the Perplexed, Creation, 02: Creation from Nothing and Legislated Beliefs
Description: This shiur was generously sponsored by Mr. Ari Schwartz. This series is a project of the Jacob Lights Foundation.
6:00 What are the possible reasons one would accept Creation ex Nihilo?
8:00 Avraham and Moshe as authorities and leaders who we follow and from whom we accept the doctrine of Creation ex Nihilo
18:00 Jews are the community of followers of Avraham, their forefather, and Moshe, their prophet
21:45 What a person should do when facing an issue that isn't conclusively proven
30:30 Why authorities determine the appropriate beliefs and how belief is a kind of...