Rambam Hilchos Yesodei HaTorah Chapter 3 - Q & A - Mishneh Torah #15

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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.

believed in the past what is believed now although after your explanation so many new things were cleared up for me i still don't understand how they could say the same about the first chapter in the second chapter which speaks solely about god and i believe in him our love of him there's only one of him and everything else you talked about as i understand what you're teaching these beliefs about god are the basis for everyone else for everything else to come all the halachas how we live our lives what we're supposed to do how we are to behave can you explain how the first two chapters could even be put into the same category as the third and fourth chapter it's a good question it's a good question the only thing i'm going to say very briefly is the general theme of those chapters of course everybody agrees with the foundation of foundations to know that there is a maturation and so forth but there were quite a few details that elicited many arguments i'll just give one classic example at the end of chapter two the rambam describes hashem as who hamada deva who are you he's the knower he's the knowing and he's the instrument of knowledge because everything comes from him and he's aware of himself and he's one with his knowledge and one with his life so for example take the maharal of prague morale of prague in his introduction to his classic vurus hashem takes issue with the rambam because he says that the rambam associates god with knowledge hashem is the knower and the knowledge and instrument of knowledge and he says our sages never called them they called him he said even knowledge awareness

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1. 0:32believed in the past what is believed now although after your explanation so many new things…
2. 3:39according to our capacity my separation is understanding the spiritual energy of the cosmos so they…
3. 6:56were formed with wisdom this is one of the sources of the rambam yet he formed…
4. 9:59of this when he defines hashem in chapter one hashem spins he controls the sphere with…
5. 13:05intelligence that embedded these laws into the universe and those laws govern the entire universe and…
6. 16:08matter in other words at the core of all matter at the core of the universe…
7. 19:11they used to think a cell is a simple little guy you know very not complex…
8. 22:17this is how it has to function we take it for granted we say it's nature…
9. 25:20to make a bracha creates and then the world comes back to the oneness to its…
10. 28:2699.9999 percent of the atom is what empty space so if you would take all the…

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