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Podcast: The Great Sources with Rabbi Shnayor Burton
Episode: S1, E23 Torah vs Prophets: Knowing God
Description: The Torah's message differs from the prophets': the former focuses on law, the latter on morals. Concomitantly, the prophets taught knowledge of God, while the Torah indicates that this is an impossibility: He is utterly unknowable. If you can know Hashem, then you should emulate Him; if you cannot, then you should obey the fixed, inflexible, and sometimes inscrutable law.
Explore how these contradictory teachings are both true – on different levels of consciousness. Together, these diametrically opposed philosophies comprise one great system that allows for both negative theology and anthropomorphism.
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