The Great Sources with Rabbi Shnayor Burton

S7, E20, The Guide of the Perplexed, the Closing Chapters, 04: Know, My Son — The Parable of the Parable's Interpretation Shnayor Burton Shnayor Burton 306 subscribers Analytics Edit video

1:00 The parable of the sultan and its two interpretations4:00 The alternative path to God that does not involve studying philosophy nor human perfection8:00 Rambam gives

S7, E19, The Guide of the Perplexed, the Closing Chapters, 03: Two Roads to the Inner Court of the King

0:00 The parable of the sultan in his palace9:30 The interpretation of the parable: the Torah track to reach knowledge of God12:45 The second meaning of the parable: the

S7, E18, The Guide of the Perplexed, the Closing Chapters, 02: The Birth of a Nation Under Divine Providence

00:45 The turn and the tension in III:51, and its parallel in III:54, about whether the service of God involves turning away from this world or engaging with it4:15 A new

S7, E17, The Guide of the Perplexed, the Closing Chapters, 01: The Perfect Life and the Perfect Death

Should Judaism Go Universal?

0:00 Has the time arrived for Judaism to cultivate a stance of ideological expansion?5:00 The divine decree of separation between Israel and the nations8:00 Is the role o

How Shlomo Read the Torah: Good, Evil, and the Heart of the Entire Tanach

Guest shiur delivered at Kollel Bein Hamikraos in Yerushalayim

The Door Moshe Closed: Nobody Can Be Moshe, Everyone Has to Listen to Him

Torah is a transmission from someone who went where no one else could go and came back to tell us not to. Moshe entered the source of all being and returned with a singl

The Three Oaths; guest shiur at Beis Medrash Meshivas Nefesh

Rambam's Secret Interpretation of "An Eye for an Eye"

Rambam writes in the Guide, 3:41:The punishment meted out to anyone who has done wrong tosomebody else consists in general in his being given exactly the same treatment t

S5, E63 Exodus, Exile and Redemption, Final Audio Message

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S10, E9 In Pursuit of Knowing Hashem: Why We Need the Torah and Why Freedom Is Impossible

0:00 What is Judaism all about?2:00 Did the forefathers know the Name of Hashem or not?4:00 Exodus initiated two seemingly different things: knowledge of Hashem and freed

S5, E61 Exodus, Exile and Redemption, Sec. 5, Chapter 10: A Most Peculiar and Remarkable Gematria

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How to Become a King: On Parables and Dominion

A shiur on Mishlei as royal education: parable as a technology of rule; Shlomo and the language of animals; the snake as political challenger; and the stabilizing role of

S10, E8 In Pursuit of Knowing Hashem: Why Do We Need the Torah?

In this conversation, Zev and I discuss what role the Torah plays in the pursuit of knowing Hashem 00:30 Why do we require the Torah for the pursuit of da'as Hashem? 9:

S5, E60 Exodus, Exile and Redemption, Sec. 5, Chapter 9: Fear

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How to Wage War for Peace: Mashiach and the Divine Name "Shalom"

0:00 How to wage war for Hashem1:45 Rambam's treatment of the laws of Chanukah – a celebration of military victory – ends with the teaching that peace is the purpose of t

S5, E59 Exodus, Exile and Redemption, Sec. 5, Chapter 8: The Inheritance of the Hidden

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S5, E58 Exodus, Exile and Redemption, Sec. 5, Chapter 7: In the Shadow of the Word

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S10, E7 The New Knowledge of Hashem: From the Thousand-Year Providence to Prophecy 2.0

In this conversation, Zev and I discuss the 1000-year era of prophecy, how the perfectly righteous man bends the world to the perfect good, and the challenges of the new

S5, E57 Exodus, Exile and Redemption, Sec. 5, Chapter 6: How to Dream True, a Primer

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