Rabbi Guy Matalon - The Kuzari - Part 8

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

thank you we are in the midst of the beginning of the middle of the kuzari actually we're in the middle of the beginning of the kuzari right we are moving along in a nice pace and we discussed prophecy so the question was remember we left off yesterday with the philosophers the philosophers have all sorts of theories that contradict the teachings of mosharabe no the teachings of the Torah and the king says what are you going to do with that that is what they say contradicts the Torah how are you going to address this issue so the Rabbi says I don't blame the philosophers for reaching the conclusions in which which they did conclusions in which which they did can't blame them why because there are people that don't they haven't received the Torah they the Greeks were isolated right they weren't in the region of all the other good things end of the Torah and they never received this stuff since they didn't receive it you can't really they didn't receive it you can't really blame them whatever they were able to reach was due to their own striving intellectual Pursuit and since they pursued it as best they could they reached the conclusions in which they did so he doesn't blame them so says the kusary okay so does that mean so does that mean that we shouldn't believe Aristotle for the philosophical conclusions in which he reached he doesn't have a tradition he doesn't have the masora the transmission of the Torah and so he's guessing so should I reject what he says so what do you think should you reject what he says or not no why not what does he say

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1. 0:19thank you we are in the midst of the beginning of the middle of the kuzari…
2. 3:33thinking about the creation of the universe and its end and it was very difficult for…
3. 7:09it's there is a way to have it work okay so he says the Torah comes…
4. 10:16world doesn't match up with Torah then it's just an illusion of this world it's not…
5. 14:05at the same time so the person that's deep that wasn't I'm assuming that's not operating…
6. 17:21right and the guys uh the Martian says okay so all right what do you want…
7. 21:03why can't can you be say to Rashid you're wrong no why because you don't know…
8. 24:12I'm serious like and I say like I'm pretty smart I can argue I can never…
9. 27:49if I give you information how are you getting it yes you're hearing me make sounds…
10. 30:56the king says are you talking about nature so the Rabbi says okay what do you…

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