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00:00 The project of the Guide is the rectification of the challenges associated with prophecy
2:30 The need for the Torah to be unlocked
12:00 King Solomon was a Messianic figure who commenced the unlocking of the Torah, which was then completed by Rabbi Akiva
20:45 The innovation in the Torah which is itself rooted in the Torah: Rambam's rereading of the Torah's mission to uproot idolatry and his application of its teaching to God's incorporeality
36:30 The Oral Torah can undermine the surface-level meaning of the Written Torah
40:45 How Moshe both did and didn't wage war against the erroneous belief in the corporeality of God
44:00 It takes much knowledge to know that knowledge is limited
48:45 How Rabbi Akiva's new teaching about parables improved on King Solomon's teaching about parables
51:00 The endless sea and the infinitude of wisdom: The meaning of the parable of water is that we can’t know the true meaning of the parable of water
54:30 The purpose of parables is not to explain something but rather to make an abstract truth attractive to the body
1:01:15 Rabbi Akiva's teaching about the water that has no end; how he faced endless waves and how Rabbi Meir faced endless waves
1:12:30 Two kinds of parables
1:15:30 What will be treated of in the next lecture
By Rabbi Shnayor Burton5
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00:00 The project of the Guide is the rectification of the challenges associated with prophecy
2:30 The need for the Torah to be unlocked
12:00 King Solomon was a Messianic figure who commenced the unlocking of the Torah, which was then completed by Rabbi Akiva
20:45 The innovation in the Torah which is itself rooted in the Torah: Rambam's rereading of the Torah's mission to uproot idolatry and his application of its teaching to God's incorporeality
36:30 The Oral Torah can undermine the surface-level meaning of the Written Torah
40:45 How Moshe both did and didn't wage war against the erroneous belief in the corporeality of God
44:00 It takes much knowledge to know that knowledge is limited
48:45 How Rabbi Akiva's new teaching about parables improved on King Solomon's teaching about parables
51:00 The endless sea and the infinitude of wisdom: The meaning of the parable of water is that we can’t know the true meaning of the parable of water
54:30 The purpose of parables is not to explain something but rather to make an abstract truth attractive to the body
1:01:15 Rabbi Akiva's teaching about the water that has no end; how he faced endless waves and how Rabbi Meir faced endless waves
1:12:30 Two kinds of parables
1:15:30 What will be treated of in the next lecture

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