# From **The Great Sources with Rabbi Shnayor Burton** by R Shnayor Burton. - **Published:** Wed, 30 Jul 2025 03:40:29 GMT - **Duration:** 01:16:41 - **Audio:** https://anchor.fm/s/fb5467c/podcast/play/106194679/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-6-30%2F4555c633-437e-96c5-d6ce-b0b46497cd0f.mp3 - **Page:** 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 - **TorahApp:** https://torahapp.org/share/p/3P_r_shnayor_burton_great_sources/e/02370ec2-ce4f-4d02-958f-d99d0b76eb4a 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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