Rabbi Guy Matalon - The Kuzari - Part 16

What’s said in this shiur

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 it's a very very important skill to be able to summarize you know what you've been learning so that you know okay this is where I am I'm starting from here I know there's this and this and this and this and this and this and this and I'm right here okay now I'm ready to go so it's very very important okay so how did we get here before we continue so remember the question that so remember the question that the king asked was you remember about putting human characteristics to Hashem okay so before that how did he get to it because the the rabbi taught the king about it time all these wondrous things took place wonderful amazing Miracles those miracles prove that it wasn't it wasn't accidental it wasn't accidental it wasn't by chance it wasn't some sort of magical spell or anything else it was simply the will of God so then the king says yeah you're right I mean this is what happened and that's what the Torah says so okay so that explains why you people view God in human terms so says the rabbi what what are you talking about what what are you talking about what do you mean human terms not only do we not we don't Envision things that God created in human terms like the soul how much more so God and so he gives a very short explanation of how we understand human terms when they are applied to God to say that they're not really applying its metaphors so then the king says Okay so I guess you guys are like the philosophers you want to say it says

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