Beauty: From a Torah Perspective - Rabbi Dr. Akiva Tatz

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

so let's think about something that is deep and demanding that i hope you'll enjoy and find fundamental there's something i heard from ramon shapiro which is a insight into a challenging subject and the question is the subject is chanukah but the thing i'd like to look at is the problem of woman's beauty womanly beauty hanukkah's a time to think about that as we try to explain and i'd like to show you that the torah has an extreme contradiction or apparent contradiction contradiction or apparent contradiction about the question of material beauty physical beauty and particularly a woman's beauty let me try to set up the the contradiction and then suggest to you a way through this which is something which touches on deep and fundamental elements in torah thinking first of all i'm sure i don't have to tell you that greece is the culture that gave us our motion of athletics in the in the in the west today all structures in the in the west today all structures are greek and all notions of beauty today are built on greek foundations right if you a student of the classics you'll know when it comes to art and to sculpture taught that you need a beautiful mind and a beautiful body the greek games have played naked to demonstrate the beauty of the body beautiful mind had the greatest philosophy incredibly powerful philosophy so strong that it attracted most of the jewish people as you probably know the hellenists the real battle was against the hellenist jews the philosophy was powerful enough for

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