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Podcast: The Great Sources with Rabbi Shnayor Burton
Episode: S7, E6 The Guide of the Perplexed, The Problem of Evil, 02: Non-Existent Evil
Description: This lecture series is a project of כרם בין תורה לחכמה, generously sponsored by R' Yoel Werzberger.
Highlights:
1:00 Goodness is what is real, and evil is privation
3:20 The goodness of the universe is the foundational notion of the whole Torah
9:00 Are the masses of today similar to the masses in the past?
11:30 Existence is good as judged by all existents
14:45 Creation ex Nihilo and evil as privation
16:45 Non-existence is evil only relative to existence
28:30 Confronting evil is confronting the nothingness that preceded Creation, and induces fear of God due to its absurdit...