What is Real Spirituality? The Art of Judaism

What’s said in this shiur

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

[Music] the topic that we can discuss tonight is judaism and the arts i'm not going to pretend that we're going to be able to do anything exhaustive definitive it's a large topic exhaustive definitive it's a large topic what i want to do is just to bring up maybe a couple of ideas that i had share them with you restriction refers to the three sons of noah of noah as three levels in the perception of the world shem ham and the office shem ham the office shem ham the office the lowest excuse me the lowest of those levels the most basic of those levels is the level of ham ham is the most rudimentary level of the perception of the world kham and of course the word means hot hot heat heat is a feeling ham's perception of the world is through the feelings meaning what i can feel meaning what i can feel exists more than that i'm not sure about and if you think about it the descendants of ham to this day that's what their music is all about it's all about feelings it's all about feelings if you listen to uh gospel music it's you know people stand up and they they they shout to each other but can you feel it right it's about feelings heat it's about feelings heat emotion raw emotion that says referral hersh is the most basic level the level above that is really what we're going to be talking a bit about tonight is the level of yoffis yaffet contains within it the hebrew word which means beauty beauty is the perception of the intellect the intellect is something which

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1. 0:04[Music] the topic that we can discuss tonight is judaism and the arts i'm not going…
2. 4:06definition doesn't exist just as harm's world is the world of emotion jaffet yafis's world is…
3. 8:15fortunes on advertising on marketing and all this is to do with the outside of things…
4. 12:55the smallest fraction that's still possible to perceive and that's why it's called pane shabbat because…
5. 16:58a symphony orchestra behaving like a prima donna the words actually come into english literally what's…
6. 21:36now they managed to do this with the written torah the oral torah the talmud they…
7. 25:40the photographer begins with the finished product with the world he must coax from the world…
8. 29:45much more narrow restricted constricted palette of colors just black and white tones says to us…
9. 34:20means that by understanding ourselves we can understand something about god thus that's what i want…
10. 38:33a jew's life is brimful of constrictions restrictions and people often say you know you poor…

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