Rambam Mishneh Torah: Hilchos Yesodei HaTorah Chapter 7

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

prophecy will not be conferred ella al hamdulillah only on a human being a wise person who was great in wisdom giber bimi daysof somebody who was powerful in his midos in his or her characteristics his natural inclination should not get the better of him in any matter of the world elohumas but rather through his das through his awareness through his perceptiveness through his mind he always triumphs over his natural inclination constantly the rambam is here giving the conditions that make the human being a conduit for this experience of navoo of prophecy the first thing he says is the person has to have great the person has to be a gibber a mighty powerful person when it comes to his middays and it's expressed that there's no issue in the world nothing is gabriel of vedava there's nothing in the world where his natural inclination gets the better of him over overpowers him overtakes him on the contrary he is fully in control of his life this also must be a human being who has an expansive consciousness and it's accurate it's authentic it's real adam a person who is filled saturated with all of these characteristics shalin begufo and wholesome in his body meaning the person is physically healthy physically fit cache le pardes when this person enters the paradise the orchard that we spoke about the spiritual orchard the pardes is the standing of mice and merkel and my severities the essence of creation and the essence of the spirituality in creation the divinity in creation the image is and he will be drawn into these great powerful and sublime realities in other words this becomes his reality he's in tuned to the essence to the depth of the physical reality he's attuned to the divine harmony that

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1. 0:32prophecy will not be conferred ella al hamdulillah only on a human being a wise person…
2. 3:40not get lured into those superficial traps vahilla kumasarizatsuma and he um entices himself with enthusiasm…
3. 6:42most brute simple physical forms and matter is a manifestation of the divine wisdom and he…
4. 9:47so the rambam says once this dwells on the person actually can become transformed into another…
5. 12:52was a metaphor it was a metaphor for the empires in history and the subjugation of…
6. 16:01they are following the path towards prophecy name is god just like you would say this…
7. 19:01came to the sanctuary to speak to hashem and he heard the voice speaking to him…
8. 22:09whenever they want they have to prepare themselves even if hashem is ready to give them…
9. 25:11happen like this they have to go into a certain place and even then hashem has…
10. 28:23who does a miracle we should say um we don't know she says nonetheless mitzvah if…

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