Rabbi Guy Matalon - The Kuzari - Part 27

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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 we are um we are still discussing the terms which we use to describe hashem to refer to god to god and as much as you know a lot of people say who cares why do we have to spend so much time talking about this particular topic and really it is i would say one of the most important aspects of jewish philosophy because we are trying to be as precise as we can when we describe when we talk about god and since language does not allow us to and since language does not allow us to be precise we need to be aware of the limitations so that before you say god is or god is not you have to figure out what am i trying to say here and that i think is a very very important um process to go through so to learn about how we look at the language that we use to describe ourselves like it very nice very nice the fact that you're smiling is even better so good kadima so we like confuse this idea like how do they not see like when they read the bible when they're in the torah how do they not see that it's all it's metaphorical metaphorical well it depends if you have if somebody reads it says and the the spirit of god hovered over the water so what does that mean or they heard god walking in the garden of eden so how do you understand that so somebody says somebody could say look i just read what it says and it says that god has a finger then he has a finger that god speaks so god speaks god walks

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1. 0:07so we are um we are still discussing the terms which we use to describe hashem…
2. 3:19but it says that he does so maybe you're just wrong why can't we just say…
3. 6:55it has something to do with with body so the reason that we come on to…
4. 10:28but there are no phoenixes no i know but i'm just saying even in the realms…
5. 14:03the lizard is there the lizard is there the only being that could bring something out…
6. 17:43without any intermediary there are some things that he does without any intermediaries that is when…
7. 20:53there is no sin in the way that the judge executes his judgment and once he…
8. 24:29right we always say that god has a will divine will but the philosopher says what…
9. 28:13it's not really do you wanna die whatever i could care less i have it great…
10. 31:49right they heard the ten commandments they got the luchos that's the next line that he…

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