Rabbi Guy Matalon - The Kuzari - Part 13

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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 was born in spain he died somewhere in the near east we're not sure we know that he left spain for egypt and then was going to eliza and we lose track of him and we lose track of him he died i think around 1075 he was probably one of the greatest poets that the jewish people ever produced outside of the video of psalms there were four great poets in the in the what is called the medieval period the middle ages he is probably one of the greatest uh sort of it's a between four of them it really depends on how you connect to them and he we on how you connect to them and he we know that he studied philosophy early and he rejected it and he wrote a systematic view of judaism in order to defend judaism from attacks from four different groups philosophers kerites which we're we're going to get to kerrites christians and muslims those are the four categories and so he created a fictional situation where there's a king where there's a king who has a dream that repeats itself and then he brings different people to argue for different positions philosopher comes first because it is the greatest attack to judaism the philosopher is always in the background and we deal with it all the time at least in my reading christianity and islam are summarily executed right he sort of refutes them very quickly

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1. 0:07so was born in spain he died somewhere in the near east we're not sure we…
2. 2:40development which is being contested currently among some historians that they say it never happened it…
3. 5:46for 900 years think about this 900 years they had the ark and the mishkan and…
4. 8:52and i was mad at my arabic teacher because i said look we had to learn…
5. 11:58that not to worship other gods like me and not to make graven images so if…
6. 15:09of anthropomorphizing god he says how could you say that when we don't anthropomorphize aspects that…
7. 17:47so that when we speak when we think when we behave right he says that when…
8. 20:55rot in order for what's inside to begin to i think the proper nomenclature is sprout…
9. 24:00right so that is the form it's like it's kind of like a plate yeah aristotle…
10. 27:05line them up and then you ask some a martian what is the form of a…

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