Rambam Mishneh Torah: Hilchos Yesodei HaTorah Chapter 10

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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.

any prophet who stands up before us and maintains that hashem has indeed sent him as his navi as his prophet in its he need not perform a miracle like one of those wonders performed by maisha rabino or one of those wonders performed by elio and alicia for example we will tell this navi okay let's see if you can split the sea aurelio anova or elisha who resurrected the dead let's see if you can resurrect a corpse there is no need for such a miracle shayeshbam shinwii which actually transforms the very patterns and structures of nature of the world ella but we said before that navi does have to perform a sign a miracle he says shalom his sign is varying he should predict the future things that are going to happen in the world and his words should become authenticated they should be validated through those events indeed materializing in accordance with the prophecy of the prophet shanemar what's the source for this so the rambam says the source is imparted how are we going to prove how we're going to know if a prophet is authentic or a prophet is false and the pastor compassion shaiften continues that the navi has to predict what will happen if indeed his words materialize you know that he is a true prophet therefore adam when a person comes he is worthy of prophecy it's not just enough that he predicts the future as the rambam said in the earlier chapters he said in chapter 7 you first have to see that this person suits all the criteria of what a navi has to look like how a

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1. 0:32any prophet who stands up before us and maintains that hashem has indeed sent him as…
2. 3:39resurrect the dead will we believe you elohim we say to you according to the terrorism…
3. 6:43from the basal megaders all the booty and spoil that he took from jerusalem it's all…
4. 9:47authentic and truthful we can testify for the integrity of this individual then i raise another…
5. 12:49useless as fruitless as valueless and as false and the reason is because it's the hashem…
6. 16:28communicate the future about things that affect the world or affect the entire nation but the…
7. 19:35a failure because the point of the navi is not to predict catastrophe the point of…
8. 22:43which starts with all of all of umar avram and it became ella because i guess…
9. 25:51and he testifies about somebody else that he's a prophet the second one is assumed to…
10. 28:55bill either it's false or it's true and to make sure it's true you've got to…

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