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I would argue our conception of love is clouded. Just as for Hashem the concept of love is hashgacha/hatavah in response to simcha/existing consonant to his will, love from the HUMAN perspective is wanting for the happiness and well-being of the Other, and as such seeking to create an environment consonant to their will. Our love of Hashem may be a human emotion, but it's rooted in a consistent, invariant framework.

I feel your thinking is constrained by a limited understanding of what unconditional love MEANS. A parent may live their child unconditionally, but that doesn't mean concession to their every whim. Such a parent does NOT, in fact, love their child but is fulfilling an internal need that HARMS the child. A loving parent chastises, withholds, and forces growth KNOWING that it may cause pain and difficulty to the child. Because love means putting the child's development above other considerations.

26:56 9th grade girls but also when G-d favors Hevel over Kayin

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Is this a class? Idk what a Shiur is. Cool as hell tho 😎

That was fantastic. It's incredible how much Torah ChatGPT knows, including all the nuances of the moral arguments. I've been having somewhat similar discussions like this with my ChatGPT, as I'm sure millions of others have. When I'm engaged in very interesting discussions with ChatGPT, when it's giving me invaluable help in so many areas, I can't help but feel that it's more than a machine, even though I know better. Rabbi, you said "thanks" to it at the end.

Fascinating and entertaining, though much of the language constructed was anything other than mirrored reassembly of your inputs.

22:04 - 22:35 Your new translation is correct, but your reasoning is not. He means that you face the Temple, wherever it is-whether, for example, it is to your east or west. He isn't referencing the Tabernacle at all, as it was not meant for generations but only for the Israelites in the desert and for a short time in Israel until the Temple was built.

Ok so how is anyone meant to be pleasing In hashems sight when bis word says in jeremiah 19:11 that the heart is decietful above all else and is also desperately wicked. So yeah how can you ever in this life stand up before him and say hey im clean?

Secondly, it's true one should learn the Talmudic background, but that's more so for figuring out how to apply it to a new situation that's not so closely related. You are correct the Rambam viewed halakha differently than the Rosh. See Rabbi Shmuel Phillips' incredibly informative sefer Talmud Reclaimed chapter 6 starting from page 183 where he elaborates in more detail the differing roles a post-Talmudic Rabbi plays in Andalusian Sephardic and Ashkenazic machshava. What suffices to mention here is that for the former, we view post-Talmudic Rabbis as primarily teachers who clarify and restate the clear halakhic conclusions of the Talmud. When in safek, we utilize general k'lalim like being machmir in misvot d'Oraita, mekel in d'Rabbanan as the Rambam wrote ought to be done. Rabbi Phillips notes this leaves little room for Rabbinic authority, chidushim and creative pesakim. Ashkenazim (and eventually Christian Spain Sefardim like the Ben Ish Chai etc.) on the other hand viewed things very differently. The Rosh at the end of Masekhet Sanhedrin perek 3 cited Rabbenu Tam that: "In our times, it is logical that the most important in the generation should be considered a Bet Din HaGadol!" While unsurprising today, that's a major baseless (and therefore unacceptable) chiddush to those in the world of the Geonim and Old Sepharad. Only the collective members of the Sanhedrin hold that status, not any s'tam Bet Din or Gadol HaDor no matter how proficient in Torah and pious he is but such was the machshava of the Rosh. Should it then come as a surprise he was absolutely against the notion of any non-talmid chakham paskening from the Mishneh Torah (or similar codes that would later be published)? it removes to a significant degree the reliance and authority Rabbis should have over the Am in his mind.

Thanks for this interesting shiur! If I may, you mentioned around the 21 minute mark many areas of the Mishneh Torah aren't clear. I absolutely agree with you that in order to best understand what Ha'Rambam meant, one needs to enter his world, similar to say when learning a new language you'd be sure to learn well the idioms to achieve proficiency. However, you implied we simply have no way of achieving this which surprised me. Were you unaware of the Andalusian Masoret when you filmed this shiur 2 years ago? The more I've learned the Andalusian/Geonic methodology and re-learned the Rambam through those lens, I personally feel it makes a significant difference. Perhaps it may well explain many misconceptions and other related issues Ashkenazi (& Christian Spain Sefaradi) Rabbanim had. After one learns how the Rambam learned, I think it removes not all, but many of the difficulties in understanding and therefore properly relying on the Mishneh Torah for pesak halakha. Allow me to prove it: In Hilkhot Sisit 1:10, Ha'Rambam wrote shezirat ha'chutim is optional. The Ra'avad thought Masekhet Eruvin daf 96b (in the case of finding leshonot of tekhelet in the shuk) refuted thus. However it appears the Ra'avad had a very different approach to limud. He didn't understand that a simple case like this without any explicit mention of chute tekhelet needing to only ever be plied, doesn't make it a chiyuv. The Gemara can be understood as just laying out the practical fact that blue-colored strings found in the shuk would more times than not be plied. It doesn't necessarily mean plying is halakhically required. We find this in Masekhet Menachot Perek HaTekhelet; the Gemara refers to non-tekhelet strings as lavan simply because that was the more popular color back then. It doesn't mean the Gemara requires only white strings. Another example can be simply because nevi'im amd especially protégés in training would carry musical instruments with them doesn't mean it was a chiyuv to achieve nevua! It was just a common thing to do considering how much music can aid in achieving the desired result. Chakhme Lunel lacking the Geonic/Andalusian Masoret as well didn't understand and inquired of Ha'Rambam on the matter of shezira. He replied in Peter HaDor #21 that since the Sifri (the explicit makor of shezira) was written by Rashbi AND the Talmud doesn't explicitly mention a chiyuv, it appeared the other Tannaim weren't maskim. In other words, if the Bavli (which is our primary makor of Law) doesn't require something, it's not obligatory (unless of course the Bavli simply didn't address an issue altogether and thus the need to defer to the Yerushalmi for the halakha). This concept of what's intentionally left out of the Bavli despite having the chance to mention a given halakha translating into it isn't a chiyuv was apparently foreign to Chakhme Lunel and the rest of Europe (even the Bet Yosef was shocked and didn't appear to understand this concept). Thus another major difference and crucial klal for one to understand in studying the Mishneh Torah.

How did you do this? To get it to speak to you?

Who is king?

I have a tentative translation: The boozing scoffer murmurs, "Brandy"; all who are mad over it don't grow wise. The meaning: The scoffer, even when intoxicated, requests more liquor-stronger liquor, in fact. He is overindulgent and obsessive about drinking. Anyone like him, who goes crazy over intoxicants, will also be like the scoffer-devoid of wisdom.

“Through steadfast kindness, misdeeds are atoned, but through the fear of the LORD, one veers from evil” (Proverbs 16:6). • If you do something wrong, the way to cover up for it so that it doesn’t get mentioned again is by doing consistent good deeds. But better yet is to avoid doing wrong things to begin with, and that’s accompanied by fearing the LORD.

So incest allowed in Judaism 😅

Stop promoting incest 😅

Translation #1: “The fool has no desire for real understanding, only for making his opinion known” (Proverbs 18:2). Explanation #1: The fool doesn’t have a genuine desire for deep understanding, only for making his own thoughts known, either out of pride or just for emotional connection. Translation #2: “The fool has no desire for real understanding except for when his opinion is made known” (Proverbs 18:2). Explanation #2: The fool doesn’t have a genuine desire for deep understanding except for when his deficient thoughts are made known. It is only then that he resolves to understand things better to avoid looking stupid, but his resolution is short-lived.

Weird question… are you from procer Washington? Does your family have a connection with the late rabbi Aharon Steinberg?

This is such good stuff!

This is dumb arum is a swamp cabbage it's like garlic and sailors refused to carry it on their ships causing great garlic debate saying it deprives a magnet of it's power t attract

Isaiah 53 is all you need to know, it was forbidden by some rabbis to even speak of it, it's clear, read it, and your eyes will be opened.

It is interesting that in Rambams Hagaddah that Pasuk is not included

I've been waiting for this perek!

The translation wasn't necessarily after the reading itself. Based on several gemaras the translations could be interstitial to the possukim, much the way people tend to do the targum with each possuk.

I think you've done a good job in demonstrating the un-replicable nature of the tzelem Elokim.

This was in alternate turns adorable, astounding, and amusing. I was waiting for the Mazal tov!

Wow, impressive!

I love the pronunciations. I can't believe it can say Abudharum

Wow!

Hello Rabbi. I’m very glad you shared this demonstration. I’d love to to discuss if you would be open to chat. Best and Shabbat Shalom

Very cool.

This is both remarkable and deeply unnerving.

This is incredibly disturbing.

מרושש may be one who acts in a poor manner i.e.: does not concern himself with hoarding wealth. And he's the one with sufficient things because he's satisfied with his life

Targum Onkelos seems to have reflexive Aramaic conjugations...

Hello Rabbi, we have a group in Mexico that would like to learn with you. Do you have an e-mail I can contact you? Thank you 🙏

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Rambam was a student of Islamic Mysticism , and never wrote a single thesis in Hebrew, but only in Arabic. FRAUD IN PLAIN SIGHT. Rambam said "The Orbit of Mercury is closer to the Earth than the Orbit of Venus". That is not true. Sorry.

How long did they cry for was it just that one time or they cried over 200+ years ?

Lol, I also had the problem of looking like a middle schooler when I was teaching those grades!

Great shiur! as always 😊

Rabbi are those the real vowels of hashem

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This pasuk reminds me of the Starving Time at Jamestown. The settlers came to find gold, and even though they weren’t finding it, they thought they were too good to work the land, so they didn’t have food and even devolved to cannibalism and 90% of them died in one winter. Then John Smith came and told them “he who will not work shall not eat” (I believe a verse from the New Testament), and then the situation got better.

mind blowing, you are so cool, thank you! imperfectum (אית''ן) many times is translated as ''is'' הווה ממושך

Good class, Rabbi. Thank you