Rabbi Guy Matalon - The Kuzari - Part 20

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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.

so getting to the end of book one which is really good timing it's really good timing because we'll start with book two soon and we might even finish book two by chanukah because book three and book five because book three and book five are very very difficult so we're sort of going to so we see from the end piece that we did that the cruiser is bringing a very interesting argument with regard to the message of um of god and it's really a very interesting and it's really a very interesting argument um when we compare judaism to other religions the two competing religions believe that they are messages from god for all humanity is that a fair statement and if so says the says the the kusari then there is something wrong when the message only gets delivered and accepted only by half by half of the people that were supposed to get the message and he raises the question isn't that a gun isn't that something wrong with the planning phase so you would say well certainly the planning phase couldn't have been wrong it's god okay then it's god didn't make the mistake so you want to say the prophet made a mistake so we say no the prophet couldn't have made a mistake either so then what's shot that's just not true that's just not true so we sort of are left with we're stuck so the the the rabbi says that god gave the torah to moshe urbanu to give it to the people who spoke the language of the torah and he gave it to his own people and they the purpose of this message was to give them the torah and all of the prophets that come following are speaking about and to israel

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1. 0:07so getting to the end of book one which is really good timing it's really good…
2. 2:45are speaking about and to israel including jonah even jonah because his whole message has to…
3. 5:18divine light and the rest of the people are sort of like the outside shell so…
4. 8:19transmitting but we have reached such a low level that we can't pick up the transmission…
5. 10:54because in the dream correct so to say no what what kind of a person has…
6. 13:57he said you know the first thing when i get to god eddie no yeah so…
7. 16:32going to get in the world to come is everything that is in this world and…
8. 19:04there that's why we're not arguing for you know uh cream cheese uh and bagels and…
9. 22:11to us with regard in answering why don't you know if such a great pleasure why…
10. 24:42speaks about this and he says and there's a masha so we have a parable there…

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