# <![CDATA[S7, E19, The Guide of the Perplexed, the Closing Chapters, 03: Two Roads to the Inner Court of the King]]>

From **The Great Sources with Rabbi Shnayor Burton** by R Shnayor Burton.

- **Published:** Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:34:39 GMT
- **Duration:** 01:11:36
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<![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY4JeAmdUpg">0:00</a> The parable of the sultan in his palace<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY4JeAmdUpg&t=570s">9:30</a> The interpretation of the parable: the Torah track to reach knowledge of God<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY4JeAmdUpg&t=765s">12:45</a> The second meaning of the parable: the scientific track to reach knowledge of God<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY4JeAmdUpg&t=1225s">20:25</a> The second meaning stands in tension with and contradicts the first<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY4JeAmdUpg&t=1620s">27:00</a> Rambam wanted his student to learn things in their proper order<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY4JeAmdUpg&t=1860s">31:00</a> How a person could reach certainty about divine matters without studying the propaedeutic sciences<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY4JeAmdUpg&t=2145s">35:45</a> Some noble souls have God-given illumination attained not through a course of education but as a gift<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY4JeAmdUpg&t=2550s">42:30</a> As a student of Rambam, R' Yosef needed a course of education <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY4JeAmdUpg&t=2925s">48:45</a> The meaning of the sultan is never interpreted; in III:52, the king is interpreted to mean the intellect<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY4JeAmdUpg&t=3255s">54:15</a> God dwells in Reason, which is His Shechinah<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY4JeAmdUpg&t=3510s">58:30</a> Rambam does not interpret the meaning of the sultan, since there is no parable for God<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY4JeAmdUpg&t=3661s">1:01:01</a> "HaKadosh Baruch Hu" as a parable for the acquired intellect or the active intellect<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY4JeAmdUpg&t=3840s">1:04:00</a> The Treatise of the Pool and the final chapters of the Guide; reason as king and conduit to God</p>
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