Rabeinu Bachya and his writings (with Rabbi Yaakov Taubes)

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The opening of this shiur, in SeforimChatter with Nachi Weinstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

which are so thank you first of allak for joining me thank you so much really as a pleasure to be here I've been a long time listener of the podcast so it's very special to be here with you now okay so let's start off a little bit about your tell tell the listeners a little bit about yourself and your background sure um I grew up in TK New Jersey uh in a Rabin home uh so really surrounded by SAR my father has a very large sarm Library so was always uh grow with that kind of influence uh I studied in in Israel cab for a few years and in in Israel cab for a few years and then I came to Yu where I got my ba and my ma in Jewish studies and also my SM um and I started my doctoral Pro the doctoral program there in PhD medieval Jewish history uh then I moved to Philadelphia where I was the rabbi at University of Pennsylvania upen for five years um while there I did a big chunk of my uh my graduate work of my my cour work studed with some of the professors there and then I moved back to New York City back to the heights where I became the rabbi at Mount s Jewish center and

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1. 1:03which are so thank you first of allak for joining me thank you so much really…
2. 6:44short for B there's a Portuguese name b um so that's how some insist that the…
3. 12:53we don't really know for sure um in terms of where he lived again we know…
4. 19:04it's just omous also right and it's not yeah the manuscript we don't have more than…
5. 25:14sometime something good in cabala good in philosophy we often see cabala and philosophy as contradicting…
6. 31:23was you works that have been lost over time right and this is a you know…
7. 37:01on although I saw one scholar claim that the was brought into the cannon of acceptable…
8. 43:07together with that what would you you know should someone is something that you would advise…
9. 49:16was published by Shilo just like all of Shel just like ch's translation of the ran…
10. 55:22the Jews had to listen to conversionary sermons uh people may know at the end of…

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