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Rambam Hilchos Yesodei HaTorah Chapter 2

The Path to Love Hashem

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This class, in Rambam the Laws of Yesodei HaTorah, chapter two, was presented on Friday Parshas Matos-Maasei, 25 Tammuz, 5780, July 17, 2020, streaming live from Rabbi Jacobson's House in Monsey, NY

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Moshe -4 years ago
The Rambam writes that the deepest secrets of Torah
Should not be broadly publicized but given over one to one to select calable worthy students.

Yet, he is writing these secrets down, publicizing them for all to read (even before the printing press and computers) in violation of that which he wrote!

Like he said elsewhere about the prohibition against returning or living in Egypy, a halacha in his Mishne Torah that he violated daily!
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  Shmuel G. -4 years ago
  The Rambam himself finishes off saying I only gave you a drop out of the sea. and does give you an in depth and thorough explanation. the word Derush means profound analysis.
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isaac -4 years ago
Not fair. All scientists use laws of nature and the perfect logic and symmetry to reflect about our world, develop theories, principles, and laws, and yet refuse to give credit to the One responsible for it.

When it comes to their benefit and joy, they all know there is a perfect system, structure, order, law, and a mechanism that is nuanced and brilliant. No one argues with that. But when you ask them to give credit to the organizer, suddenly, the order means nothing and is equated with chaos.

Common! Is that an inherent contradiction or what?!
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Anonymous -4 years ago
In Halacha 4 - think of a 3D hologram projection - you can see it — it looks real — but it is nothing.

I suggest that to Halacha 10 - even saying my eye sees, my hand feels, and brain understands- the very fact that the body is then explained as component parts — the infinite can never ( by definition) can not be broken into components — as such while we can’t understand - HAS TO BE if only as the definition of infinite — which we can’t understand.
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Sara -4 years ago
Rambam
I walk on the Sacramento River levee often and today after class I saw him. RAMBAM

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Simcha -4 years ago
Question for Rabbi YY
How can the Rambam contain his love and awe in a book of halachos? At this point, in Mishna Torah, where we are to come to 'know' HaShem, he can infuse us with the warmth and fire of Torah. I think on our level, we need to ground ourselves, otherwise we might 'fly away' and not want to return and get the ultimate job done down here. 334/200
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- Anonymous -4 years ago
  See Rambam Laws of Teshuvah chapter 10 how he described love of Hashem, and see laws of Talmud Torah about Torah. For the Rambam, the two converge into one.
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