HaMeor SheBah #57: R' Yakov Danshefsky - The Knowable God

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

[Music] hashem and people could not be more opposite more different is completely unknowable completely transcendent and holy other kadosh kadosh kadosh we say hashem is is as the khazari explains kadosh means difference when we say kadosh are saying he is he is totally and completely other completely and totally totally different from us we are finite he is infinite and so the human apparatus of comprehension of understanding of experiencing of processing of taking in data of looking around and understanding something is is totally incompatible with that which is god meaning when we take a that which is god meaning when we take a substance when we take an item we have a certain apparatus that is the human being that we can take that item and we can try and understand it we can process it we can internalize it and take some way of integrating that and that knowledge into our system knowledge of that entity that we're looking at but when the entity that we're looking at is god this apparatus is totally incapable of doing that it's a what philosophers would call a categorical error it's like asking what color is an e minor asking what color is an e minor well it's not a color that that question is off what color is an e minor or what sound does blue make it's it's off so the the the the apparatus as the word i keep using this this this being that is the human being and our sensory abilities are our cognitive mind our intellect our intuition our ability to look at something and understand it is totally incongruent with trying to understand god it's like trying to use sound to measure color or color to

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1. 0:02[Music] hashem and people could not be more opposite more different is completely unknowable completely transcendent…
2. 0:32kadosh kadosh we say hashem is is as the khazari explains kadosh means difference when we…
3. 1:02that which is god meaning when we take a substance when we take an item we…
4. 1:33asking what color is an e minor well it's not a color that that question is…
5. 2:34of the difference between god of the prophet and god of the philosopher god of the…
6. 3:07of the naviem is actually a hashem that describes himself as getting angry describes himself as…
7. 3:38comprehend cannot process or take me in as i am and so you know what i…
8. 4:42some way that can be understood can be apprehended and sensed and experienced and engaged in…
9. 5:12brachus describes prayer tifila as in as an experience of pillow talk between the human and…
10. 5:42i desire you that itself the fact that hashem decides to take that which is up…

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