Tova Ganzel: The Judaism of the Prophets & the People [Origins of Judaism 3/6]

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

videos articles recommended readings and weekly emails it's hard to talk about this topic in English because when you use English words I literally mean the language English everything sounds much more historical and it kind of sounds like low-key heretical but I actually want to kind of provide a foundation within traditional sources for some of the shifts that we're talking about today in particular and that is the shift between hold on to your hats because I'm saying it in English and I know it doesn't sound good because this is the language that a lot of those who have tried to kind of historicize Judaism and reduce it down to whatever we can prove historically and looked at a lot of rabbinic ideas as a corruption so to speak God forbid of yiddishkite but I do want to talk about the distinction between prophetic Judaism and rabbinic Judaism because I do believe there was a shift we're at the center of Judaism the Yiddish kite the stories the ideas that we are told through Tanakh most of them reflect a very different world than the world that we live in today they reflect a prophetic World whereas the world we live in today is so to speak the rabbinic world of Judaism and how do we know that such a shift even took place when did it take place where do we have any reference to this whatsoever like is this just something that a bunch of Scholars made up sitting in a room in the 19th century trying to free themselves from the shackles of halal traditionalism and be able to point at

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1. 0:34videos articles recommended readings and weekly emails it's hard to talk about this topic in English…
2. 6:25request was granted and the inclination to serve Idols jumped out of the holy of holies…
3. 12:46believe that this shift of bringing the Torah to the people moving away from prophecy and…
4. 19:11but their textual analysis here also points exactly to these questions and tries to give them…
5. 25:43you want now I'll say more than that even what we see done in the temple…
6. 32:13our tradition was invented where would you send somebody who wants to understand where the notion…
7. 38:21any rulings that the rabbis had made and I'll explain what I mean it could be…
8. 44:36investigated and deeply that's all I mean to say but I'll say that you know the…
9. 50:57have to remember again that when we're talking about the second temple period we're talking about…
10. 57:14strongly recommend looking at them where he basically looks at the ancient near Eastern material that…

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