• Anonymous -4 years ago

  Is there a Friday shiur 

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  Jake W -4 years ago

  Does HKBH have Feelings

  After listening to this first shiur, the thought occurred to me "Does Hashem have Feelings"?
  We say in Hallel that "Difficult for Hashem is the suffering of the Righteous".  How do we understand this? Is this a symbolic use of the words difficult to put it in perspective for us? Or is this actually difficult for Hashem?

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  Yochanan Gordon -4 years ago

  Question for Rabbi YY

  When the Rambam writes there is one God he adds there isn’t two or more than two. The. Question initially occurred to me why he needed to add not more than two; if there isn’t two there certainly isn’t more than two. Perhaps it’s a rebuttal to the trinity. Whereby the notion may exist that there isn’t two in the sense of duality but that three is the core of unity. The Rambam is telling us that God is one.

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  Nunya -4 years ago

  Question for Rabbi YY

  what does Tzarchei Gavoah mean? Hashem "need" our avoda? or if he is infinite he doesn't need anything... but isn't that also a limitation; i.e., can't Hashem create a situation that he indeed "needs" our avoda? please explain

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  Yochanan Gordon -4 years ago

  Question for Rabbi YY

  Towards the beginning the Rambam uses a term אלוה העולם however in the Torah about Avraham Avinu it says; ויקרא שם בשם ה’ אל עולם and חסידות is מדייק, אל עולם ולא אל העולם.’it should behoove the Rambam in a perek dedicated to the oneness of Gd to express it in the most unified fashion.

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  Yochanan Gordon -4 years ago

  Question for Rabbi YY

  Why in the introduction to these laws does the Rambam write לא יעלה על המחשבה and thereafter only לא יעלה על הדעת.

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  Moshe -4 years ago

  Hashem doesn't change?

  But didn't  He change His mind after the prayers and  pleas of various tzaddikim? 

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  Lazar -4 years ago

  Question for Rabbi YY

  What was the reason of including the commentary of the ראבד if he was so harsh some times was this a common practice do we find with other ראשונים thanks for this amazing new class

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  Moshe -4 years ago

  Question for Rabbi YY

  Are only physical things separate from each other?Aren't the various spiritual worlds, the.angels, etc also separate from each other and yet are not physical?

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  Moshe -4 years ago

  Question for Rabbi YY

  The Rambam said that we need Hashem for our existence but He doesn't need us for His existence. Ok. Hashem doesn't need us for His existence but we know from Chassidus that indeed He does need us for a dwelling place down below, to be partners in creation, to have a reciprocal relationship, etc.

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  Yehudis -4 years ago

  Question for Rabbi YY

  How can we know Hashem? How can our physical brain know a spiritual reality?

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  Moshe -4 years ago

  Rashi lived a century before Rambam

  In the days before printing and widespread easy dissemination of any pirush, including Rashi's, do we know whether the Rambam had access to  Rashi on chumash or  gemora? 

   If not  it's that much more amazing  

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  Alizah Hochstead -4 years ago

  Question for Rabbi YY

  Besides the PDF also available in Chayenu

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• Anonymous -4 years ago

  DId the Rambam have a reason for his ordering in the ordering of the mitzvos that he made?

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  Sara Metzger -4 years ago

  For those who don't have a Mishneh Torah ...

  Of course it’s probably  preferred to have the actual books, either in Hebrew or English translation, whatever works for you, but if right now you don’t have access to one, and ofc besides the pdf source sheets that Rabbi YY provides, here is a link to The Mishneh Torah from Chabad.org. It’s in Hebrew with an English translation. Can be printed out or viewed on line.  https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/901656/jewish/Introduction-to-Mishneh-Torah.htm

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  Moshe -4 years ago

  The Rambam said: "with the Chumash and my Mishneh Torah, you don't need anything else" !

  As was said there are scores of seforim of pirushim on the Rambam, Hashem's sense of  humor.

   I had said that Joseph Karo, the  Choferz Chaim,  the Alter Rebbe  and  others must have disagreed.

    I was referring not to the fact that tho there were many pirushim on the Rambam, but that these three (and perhaps others) that  were dafka  subsequent Shulchan Aruchs. This shows the Rambam's statement to be somewhat overreaching (tho his is the only one to codify laws no longer or not yet applicable). 

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    Zalman -4 years ago

    1. Just a clarification: The statement "with the Chumash and my Mishneh Torah, you don't need anything else" should likely read "with the Tanach and my Mishneh Torah, you don't need anything else" as Rambam writes that  לְפִי שֶׁאָדָם קוֹרֶא תּוֹרָה שֶׁבִּכְתָב תְּחִלָּה, וְאַחַר כָּךְ קוֹרֶא בְּזֶה, וְיוֹדֵעַ מִמֶּנּוּ תּוֹרָה שֶׁבְּעַל פֶּה כֻּלָּהּ, and Torah shbiksav likely encompases Neviim and Kesuvim. 

    2. The Rambam called his compilation "Mishna Torah" for it covers ALL of the Oral Torah — via the explanation of all the laws associated with ALL 613 Mitzvos.

    The Mechaber called his compilation "Shulchan Aruch" — A set table — specifically only including the  laws and customs relavant and applicable in his time and region. 

    Therefore, the statement that one need only learn Torah Shebiksav and Rambam, and with that one has fulfiled the obligation to learn Kol haTorah kula, is still true and has not been supplanted by any other compilation. (See Hilchos Talmud Torah of the Alter Rebbe.)

    3. As an aside, there has always been layers of commentary to any primary Torah text and Rambam is no different. In terms of those particulars that you mentioned. The Mechaber and the Alter Rebbe were the only two that authored "shulchan Aruch's" while all the other halachic works are either commentaries or selected halachos. (this includes the Shach & Taz, Magen Avrahom etc. and also the Mishna Berurah.) 

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      Moshe -4 years ago

      Ty Zalman. My point was that the Rambam intimated that his digest of laws, the first and still most comprehensive, was "it". And with the Tanach (I stand corrected by it is a picayune  difference without a  distinction); that's all one needs.  Ever. 

        Yet later we see that there later  additional digests of laws, albeit not as comprehensive, (and the title given is irrelevant, they are organized systemic digests of laws) that were written highlighting the Rambam's statement as being, in my humble opinion, a bit overreaching.  

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