Rabbi Guy Matalon - The Kuzari - Part 15

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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 the kuzeri we left off with the very interesting i should get a bookmark right so that i don't have to keep finding it so the really really tough question so the really really tough question this is what we were trying to answer question was okay you people had experience of god so you experienced him corporal with the bodily images so he says no we don't imagine god with a bodily image it's not true this is not what we do we experience god and there's no problem with god telling us talking to us experiencing him and it doesn't imply that god is a body and it doesn't imply that god is a body so he says okay that's beautiful great so what are you going to do with the idol they built an idol and they worshipped an idol so what are you telling me no we are pure philosophers we only imagine god in abstract form says what are you talking about this is where we left off what does the rabbi say that's not how we imagine god being it's just so but the question is okay you experience god then you create okay you experience god then you create a golden calf but that's why why because they just got got out of egypt from where that's their idea of what you pray to the okay so obviously there's a problem here god told them don't do it so we're going to try to figure out what does the kuzuri say was the problem with the golden calf that's what we're going to spend our

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1. 0:07so the kuzeri we left off with the very interesting i should get a bookmark right…
2. 2:40of the jewish people who experienced god which is a very very important assault in judaism…
3. 5:44perfection as a human being not as a being he says no one argues that he…
4. 8:48but when kind kind killed him right because why says the kuzer because he was jealous…
5. 11:56prophet if you what's he in yeshiva you want me to consider a guy who just…
6. 15:05it produces beautiful fruit yaakov right had good roots there's his father his grandfather right he…
7. 18:15so this is a very complicated um sentence here that we are going to look at…
8. 21:18and he's like wow what's going on here there's lots of examples what about avraham sending…
9. 24:43beautiful so the simple answer that i know of of the rishonim is that the avat…
10. 27:46parentheses parenthesis right they're i mean quotes quotes uh uh what they consider an egyptian wife…

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