59 min
S7, E3, The Guide of the Perplexed, Creation, 03: Is Creation ex Nihilo Known via Philosophy or Prophecy? The Great Sources with Rabbi Shnayor Burton
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This shiur was generously sponsored by Mr. Ari Schwartz. This series is a project of the Jacob Lights Foundation.
2:00 Passages in the Guide that indicate that Creation ex Nihilo is known through revelatory prophecy
8:15 How Abraham reached knowledge of God through contemplating the heavens
19:30 Was Abraham an Aristotelian philosopher?
25:00 Prophecy revealed the truth that Creation ex Nihilo is the proper belief, not that Creation ex Nihilo is a scientific, cosmological fact
44:45 Since we believe that Abraham and Moshe had divine revelation, their personal philosophical speculations don't concern us
48:30 Maimonides' story about how Abraham discovered God is a deliberate anachronism
52:30 The project of the Guide of the Perplexed and how the perplexity shifts dramatically when it comes to Creation
This shiur was generously sponsored by Mr. Ari Schwartz. This series is a project of the Jacob Lights Foundation.
2:00 Passages in the Guide that indicate that Creation ex Nihilo is known through revelatory prophecy
8:15 How Abraham reached knowledge of God through contemplating the heavens
19:30 Was Abraham an Aristotelian philosopher?
25:00 Prophecy revealed the truth that Creation ex Nihilo is the proper belief, not that Creation ex Nihilo is a scientific, cosmological fact
44:45 Since we believe that Abraham and Moshe had divine revelation, their personal philosophical speculations don't concern us
48:30 Maimonides' story about how Abraham discovered God is a deliberate anachronism
52:30 The project of the Guide of the Perplexed and how the perplexity shifts dramatically when it comes to Creation
59 min