{"podcast":{"title":"The Great Sources with Rabbi Shnayor Burton","slug":"the-great-sources-with-rabbi-shnayor-burton-1203468","podcast_index_feed_id":1203468,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fb5467c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shnayor-burton","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/2535383/2535383-1669581270294-8c5f4d2d7739e.jpg","author":"Rabbi Shnayor Burton","episode_count":235,"summary":"To help support this podcast, please consider making a tax-deductible donation via Zelle to jacoblightsfoundation@gmail.com. Lecture series in Jewish Philosophy. What was the purpose of Creation? What is man's place in the world? What are prophecy and prayer about? What is the significance of Shabbos and the Promised Land? Explore these fundamental questions of Judaism from their sources, and become familiar with the systems developed by the great Torah thinkers: R' Saadiah Gaon, R' Yehuda HaLevi, R' Bachya ibn Paquda, Rambam and the school of the Mekubalim.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-great-sources-with-rabbi-shnayor-burton-1203468"},"episode":{"title":"S10, E7 The New Knowledge of Hashem: From the Thousand-Year Providence to Prophecy 2.0","slug":"s10-e7-the-new-knowledge-of-hashem-from-the-thousand-year-providence-to-prophecy-2-0","published_at":"2025-11-23T00:10:56+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-great-sources-with-rabbi-shnayor-burton-1203468/s10-e7-the-new-knowledge-of-hashem-from-the-thousand-year-providence-to-prophecy-2-0","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-great-sources-with-rabbi-shnayor-burton-1203468","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shnayor-burton/episodes/S10--E7-The-New-Knowledge-of-Hashem-From-the-Thousand-Year-Providence-to-Prophecy-2-0-e3bb7jd","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fb5467c/podcast/play/111565869/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-10-23%2F412981362-44100-2-a4bc47925f737.mp3","summary":"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 prophecy. 1:45 Summary of the lecture "How to Reclaim Prophecy": • The New Knowledge of Hashem: How to Reclai... 6:00 Prophecy 1.0 is the guide to prophecy 2.0 8:20 Why we consider the era of prophecy to begin with the Exodus despite the great prophets who preceded it 10:00 The one thousand years of Jewish history recorded in Tanach stand as the paradigm of Divine Providence, when nothing occurred that lay outside its order 12:30 On public and private prophecy; why widespread public prophecy requires the Ark of the Covenant and the Mikdash 20:00 How the perfectly righteous man bends God's will to what is good in his eyes 26:15 Tefillah is the absolute commitment to what is right 32:30 The perfectly righteous man is the one who cannot abide any evil 38:30 Those who forgive some evil in themselves will forgive some imagined evil in God 42:30 Are we living in prophetic times? 44:15 Between the Rambam and R' Yehudah HaLevi 48:00 How come the great books don't discuss the new prophecy? 52:45 Would someone be able to do the original kind of prophecy today? 1:01:45 Today, even the greatest righteous person will accept the impersonal laws of nature as being righteous 1:07:00 The challenges of the new prophecy","meta_description":"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 challe…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4373,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-great-sources-with-rabbi-shnayor-burton-1203468/episodes/s10-e7-the-new-knowledge-of-hashem-from-the-thousand-year-providence-to-prophecy-2-0/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-great-sources-with-rabbi-shnayor-burton-1203468/s10-e7-the-new-knowledge-of-hashem-from-the-thousand-year-providence-to-prophecy-2-0.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}