Rambam's Letters | Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz | December 23rd 2025

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Kanuka it says that the spiritual powers that Hashem puts into the world are so great that what the greatest sadikim accomplished on Rashan Kipper even the simplest Jew uh can accomplish on the last day of Kaneka. I'm sorry I'm giving you this message late. I should have mentioned it last week but something to remember for uh for next year. And again um the message of Kaneka is an eternal message as I talked about uh the world message as I talked about uh the world is full of full of darkness and sometimes we give up hope and Kaneka reminds us that eventually the light will triumph over the darkness and this is something that we know in Israel very very much and we should be z to see the or after experiencing the great great kosh uh today's shir uh is dedicated anonymously for the LMA of Evelina Batcalina. May she have a refle uh so uh we've been looking at the letters uh that the Rambam wrote to his beloved Talmud Yoseph Ben Yehuda and this I think will be the last session devoted to that series of letters. Again you see the extraordinary affection that the Rambam has uh for this uh individual. Number one, the Rambam dedicates the whole Morin of uh to Yosephuda. Uh and in fact, the original genesis of the Morinim were a series of very very the Morinim were a series of very very long letters that the Rambam wrote to his Talmud to explain various biblical passages and eventually they were put uh they were big enough to be a book or be a scroll and the Rambam indeed the look at the Marin today. Look at any you will see the introductory dedication to Yosephuda. Uh the Rambam consistently refers to him as my son. And when he criticizes Yose Penuda for being overly protective of

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1. 0:00Kanuka it says that the spiritual powers that Hashem puts into the world are so great…
2. 5:37daughter. So many say that the reference to the daughter dying is that somehow this girl…
3. 11:22resurrection of the dead in which the Rambam was accused of denying physical resurrection and remember…
4. 17:36called the R scalusa. Now this is already in Tmudic times and even before Talmudic times.…
5. 23:21details are very obscure exactly what was going on. Uh but apparently uh the Rambam got…
6. 29:31was controversial within itself because the alterbi kind of restored to its rightful place in a…
7. 35:08the Rambam was delegitimating the importance of Gomorrah learning and he accused the Rambam of of…
8. 40:53as unnecessary because as long as you have a bottom line uh just proceed from there,…
9. 47:04resurrection of the dead. So essentially the maklo ram and raman and others is focusing on…
10. 52:46philosophers somewhat similar hundreds of years later to the Calvinists John Calvin that there is no…

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