Rabbi Guy Matalon - The Kuzari - Part 6

What’s said in this shiur

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

welcome to another session on the kuzuri so we left off yesterday with the beginning of a pitch right on judaism and the jew the rabbi says to the king i believe in the god of abraham isaac and jacob who took me out and took us out of egypt and gave us the torah and gave us the man and did all these things gave us the man and did all these things so the king says to him what is this nonsense why don't you speak like everybody else everybody else says they believe in the creator of the universe why don't you speak like that and he said i'm sorry it's meaningless to me i am telling you i'm telling you from my experience so he says what are you talking about so then he gave him the analogy of a king an indian king right that he is only reporting the benefits which he is only reporting the benefits which he received from the king so says the rabbi i told you about the exodus from egypt and all that because those are the benefits that we receive from god and hence that's what we believe in if we weren't taken out of egypt and we wouldn't then we'd have a different story but the way we start is from this perspective now we continue onwards and he says the following he says if you had do you remember we said i read this before but i think it's very important to think about he says if the messengers of the king come to you and provide you the following gifts a written text

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1. 0:22welcome to another session on the kuzuri so we left off yesterday with the beginning of…
2. 3:33because what god gives me and does for me i'm not connected to the creator of…
3. 7:11kabbalah we are an accepted tradition that goes on from that experience all the way to…
4. 10:47but he says but in our religion this convert is not going to be equal to…
5. 13:49white skin it's not like the wall no so anyway now we're going to talk about…
6. 17:27why you don't do that i'm saying you're reading our minds well i told you i'm…
7. 21:37yes what is he talking about he's talking about prophets it's not only moses he's talking…
8. 24:46and that's how it works and he told them how the world was created and how…
9. 28:26it went to all of his 12 sons which means what all the jews have this…
10. 32:02and lens flat belly flop in the pool the next day the story is that he…

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