Introduction to Rambam Hilchos Yesodei HaTorah Chapter 3

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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.

We are about to embark on the third chapter of Rambam's Mishna the laws of the fundamentals of and this chapter is quite unique in which the Rambam following what he said earlier that our path to real love and awe of the creator leads through seeing the divine wisdom. which is infinite that is embedded in creation and therefore the Rambam said I want to share principles about various aspects of our cosmos. The Rambam now continues to set forth the astronomical system or some basic ideas of the astronomical system as a continuation of the previous chapter. Before we actually begin inside, I think it's important to give somewhat of a brief introduction. It's quite noteworthy that the classic commentators of the Rambam's Mishna are silent in this chapter. Kas Mishna, Rabio, Caro, Magishna, Mishna, Mus Ret, the classic commentators, you do have what's called the pirish. The pir is a commentary on this section of the Rambam and you have a few references from the migdalo but besides that most of the commentators have not said anything. In fact this chapter of Rambam every chapter of Rambam came under microscopic scrutiny. This chapter of Rambam, however, came truly if there was a chapter that was scrutinized under a microscope or I should say in this case with a telescope, pun intended, it was this chapter of Rambam. Two major issues that has confronted many commentators, Jewish commentators throughout the ages concerning this chapter of Rambam. I will outline very briefly The first issue is as the Rambam himself says this is the system known as myious the work of creation. Previous chapters one and two was a system known as myava which means the workings of the chariot understanding the divine relationship with creation. But this chapter 3 and

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7. 34:42position as a professor, assistant professor of physics in the celebrated University of Berlin. So he…
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