The 7th of the 13 Principles of Rambam 2009-11-09

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

Oh tonight when I first thing you have to the foremost reveille now this actually is the most important of all 13 principles all the other principles are important but this is the most important and this is what actually defines Orthodox Judaism the Franks Orthodox Judaism as opposed to any other brand of Judaism which is current today is the belief in the prophecy of Moshe Rabbeinu being a unique form of prophecy now sometimes when I give this year I bring a copy of the conservative the sort of Jewish statement of belief which is called they're met by muna and it's 55 pages long and instead of doing a one page one it's it's 55 pages long and they talk about the belief with conservative judaism about revelation and they say that some people among us believe that god did speak to moshe at mount sinai and so feeling us believe that there really is no god but there was in the sense of the classic God but rather there's a spirituality which pervaded the world and from which most revenue was influenced so that way it runs the entire gamut from almost atheist right because that's be some divinity but not supposed to specify to almost orthodoxy so there are there obviously the very fact that there's so much room for wiggling in this principle deprives it of its nature as a principle reform really has no system of beliefs you know if you know the only thing that Reform basically says is you shouldn't believe in Jesus they say that why not because that is the finest Christian really yeah but that's not they're not Jews so they don't believe in Jesus yeah no no no no that's not true they do they do no they were Christians or images to marry Jews

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3. 6:35that there was an avro me it's okay now because moshe told us is i brought…
4. 10:24actually previously written books and works and those might have been incorporated in the Torah that's…
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7. 20:44to heaven and they saw some angel and didn't like what the angle was the angel…
8. 23:55no judgments this guy he's about as well right so God is wrong that's it's not…
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