Rabbi Berel Wein The Rambam and Sefer Moreh Nevuchim

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[Music] [Applause] [Music] tonight's lecture concerns itself with the Rambam and the more in the booth him the Rambam was a controversial figure in the Rambam was a controversial figure in his lifetime he remained the controversial figure after his lifetime especially for the first two or three generations after his death but the Rambam remains Henare huh got all the great eagle and the eagle as cause i'll tell it is the symbol of the Jewish people because it flies higher than all other birds and is able to carry its young on its wings connect share your key no on its wings connect share your key no I'll go so love your faith the Rambam spread his wings and all of us for almost a thousand years over nine hundred years from the rom bombs birth that we're coming to this in the twenty thirty five will be nine hundred years from the rom bombs birth we will be able to say that we have all been protected by his great wings the Rambam is a gentle person except the Rambam is a gentle person except when it comes to intellectual argument and when it comes to intellectual argument the Rambam can be fierce as his critics were fierce and the Rambam himself writes in one of his letters that one should never take objection to fierce criticism as long as it is not personal and in his fashion it certainly was not personal personal but Morton that personal personal but Morton that he enjoyed the debate and so the more in Duluth him this book that he wrote so there are a number of misconceptions about it that have to so to speak be cleared up I mentioned that the copy of the Myrna Buchan that I'm using is the translation of rabbi CAPA and from the original Arabic and this translation he says and most

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