Rambam Mishnah Torah: Hilchos Yesodei HaTorah Chapter 4

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi YY Jacobson’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

ruach mayam afar fire ear or wind water and earth so the rambam says these four entities these four bodies shame age fire and ear water and earth hemi saudis colon of la mataman arakia they are the building blocks if you wish or the foundations or fundamental components of all of the or fundamental components of all of the creations below the sky anything that is anything that exists whether it's a human being or a behavior an animal all mammals or if or birds foul or ms or crawling creeping creatures or dog or fish or tsemarch the world of plants or vegetation or the world of plants or vegetation or matress the world of metals or margolius precious stones or pearls or stone or harem or mountains or gouche aphar or lumps of earth clouds of earth ha coil all of them gulman you say the body of all these entities is a combination of these four elements of these four elements and as i mentioned we should not confuse them with elements we talk about in chemistry they speak about more than 100 elements 107 elements 110 elements which has to do with the atomic understanding of modern day chemistry when we speak here about usaidis we're not talking about indivisible things that can't yet be devised and compartmentalized in many more details i also mentioned in many more details i also mentioned that's also number one what's important to remember number two is important to remember as we shall soon see that these four elements are often today explained and associated with the four states of matter which depends on the different ways that atoms combine to become the building blocks of matter whether it's matter in the state of solid or liquid or gas or plasma where

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1. 0:34ruach mayam afar fire ear or wind water and earth so the rambam says these four…
2. 6:12up of these four year sites base derek least le mans the tendency of fire and…
3. 12:19in other words the original element of offer which are also not the physical is not…
4. 18:21primary assay which is the most emphatic in it every entity which is a combination of…
5. 24:01water changes dissolves and becomes water vacant a portion of water which is close to the…
6. 31:16cutting it this was a big macholicus the ramen discusses this a lot is there something…
7. 37:31he's referring here to the spheres and the planets and the stars in other words the…
8. 43:06that's called tavnis or taya surah is referring to the nephesh kolbasa the inner soul in…
9. 49:21to be able to see the chrymer from the perspective of surah to be able to…
10. 55:35spiritual divine life force but the rambam here is talking about that which is conspicuous that…

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