{"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":"S7, E15 The Guide of the Perplexed, Rambam’s Messianic Vision (03): Torah and the Parable Without a Meaning","slug":"s7-e15-the-guide-of-the-perplexed-rambam-s-messianic-vision-03-torah-and-the-parable-without-a-meaning","published_at":"2025-07-30T03:40:29+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-great-sources-with-rabbi-shnayor-burton-1203468/s7-e15-the-guide-of-the-perplexed-rambam-s-messianic-vision-03-torah-and-the-parable-without-a-meaning","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/S7--E15-The-Guide-of-the-Perplexed--Rambams-Messianic-Vision-03-Torah-and-the-Parable-Without-a-Meaning-e367a9n","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fb5467c/podcast/play/106194679/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-6-30%2F4555c633-437e-96c5-d6ce-b0b46497cd0f.mp3","summary":"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","meta_description":"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 Solom…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4601,"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/s7-e15-the-guide-of-the-perplexed-rambam-s-messianic-vision-03-torah-and-the-parable-without-a-meaning/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/s7-e15-the-guide-of-the-perplexed-rambam-s-messianic-vision-03-torah-and-the-parable-without-a-meaning.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}