Rabbi Guy Matalon - The Kuzari - Part 2

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

so okay welcome to our second share in the kuzari we um are learning the philosopher's position and i mentioned before though i didn't answer we didn't sort of talk about it because we're going to talk about it because we're going to talk about it um more at length why did the king invite a philosopher first he had a dream yeah if you have a dream or dreams i don't necessarily i don't get calls in the middle of the night you know excuse me mr philosopher can you help me i have a question you know what should i do usually people who have dreams called who yeah priests whatever it is why is he calling a philosopher why is he calling a philosopher so that question is on the table we should try to figure this out there's a very easy answer that if you knew it you would be easy but if you don't it's not easy people always say to me you know you ask trick questions i say it's only a trick if you don't know the answer if you know the answer it's not a trick but you try and trick us because someone will say the right answer and then you'll do like this whole like and then you'll say the answer and then be like i just said that i know okay fine let's continue so the philosopher if you remember said god doesn't have intention so you think that god wants you to do something or to change your actions but god doesn't want anything because god is not lacking anything when you want something it means you don't have it

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2. 3:14the causes of the universe right it says god operates by necessity and god really didn't…
3. 6:51those type of things you can download from the active intellect okay that's what he says…
4. 10:26the faculties of the human being he talks about the mental faculties we have several of…
5. 13:59like a pink wearing dress tutu you know hippo dancing to you know metal music hitting…
6. 17:31okay so the imagination then is able to create an image now how does this image…
7. 21:07they could also think and deal with practical matters and they're moral and they have perfection…
8. 24:49not only different it's not the only difference there's lots of other differences but this is…
9. 28:23call common sense physics it appears that the earth is not moving because it's not i'm…
10. 31:56a minute so that's what he says he says because he becomes like this he becomes…

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