Rabbi Guy Matalon - The Kuzari - Part 21

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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 at the end of book one and we started talking about the jewish conception of the afterlife do you remember that and the king said how come other religions promise all these beautiful things things physical pleasures in the after world and you guys are promising stuff that is not really tasty and the rabbi says a very interesting idea they can only promise you what they experienced the only reason they promise you physical pleasures because that's the only pleasure they've ever had we the torah promises spiritual pleasure spiritual pleasure because that's what the jewish people experience in harassing right do you remember that that's why we differ from them what they offer is what they experience they can't ex they didn't experience what we had hence they can't offer that so then the king asked a very important question which is okay if this spiritual pleasure is so great why aren't you all committing suicide why aren't you all committing suicide right if allamah is so good then why aren't you killing yourselves and what was the answer does anybody remember not all at once because you lose your chances to get close to god okay good that's not bad so that's the point that the the mitzvot we're given and with through mitzvah is how we access god right very cool how we access god right very cool and if we didn't have the mitzvot if we didn't fulfill the commandments we wouldn't be able to get allama bad in order to get allama lambo you have to do mitzvah so you can't really skip a step now we get into um the metaphor the mashal the parable that we started with last week the parable was as follows

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1. 0:07so we are at the end of book one and we started talking about the jewish…
2. 3:15middle ages it's like going to all the way in the end so a guy went…
3. 6:51this is the light of the divine light that shines in a person and the light…
4. 9:59gehenna and you know sort of asked so he says that we see that most of…
5. 13:31we don't that's not the question the whole basis for judaism is mohammed hastina that's where…
6. 16:35verbalize it they don't know that they're experiencing it when they're experiencing it okay so then…
7. 20:13it's a different that's that's that's a whole different ballgame it doesn't mean that they can't…
8. 23:17see what i mean that's the issue i'm sure people have died and then come back…
9. 26:58it is very difficult to accept that a person whose nature is to disintegrate what does…
10. 30:02it's just not accurate correct but the idea is somebody could right when someone it says…

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