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Podcast: The Great Sources with Rabbi Shnayor Burton
Episode: S7, E4, The Guide of the Perplexed, Creation, 04: Creation ex Nihilo as the Essence of the Torah's Teaching
Description: This shiur was generously sponsored by Mr. Ari Schwartz. This series is a project of the Jacob Lights Foundation.
Highlights:
0:00 Abraham's project to strip away divinity from the universe and its association with Creation ex Nihilo
7:00 Divine bodies
11:00 Overview of the Guide 2:25
17:00 Maimonides' seven questions on the Torah
23:30 The middle question suggests that mitzvahs have no reason, contrary to Maimonides' opinion
29:00 That God has an unfathomable intent is the foundation of the Torah; Torah is irreducible to reason
34:00 If Aristotle's model of reality were to be proven...