# <![CDATA[Will We Redeem Ourselves or Will We Be Redeemed?]]>

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

- **Published:** Fri, 31 May 2024 04:17:37 GMT
- **Duration:** 00:54:19
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<![CDATA[<p>0:00 Q: Is the Messiah something we generate or something that happens to us?</p>
<p>4:00 What the Messiah will do and how he will do it</p>
<p>7:15 Why do we study Torah these days if we don't truly have the Torah in exile?</p>
<p>8:30 What is the Torah about?</p>
<p>11:00 Why the Torah doesn't work outside of Eretz Yisrael</p>
<p>13:15 The most burning question is: "What is the Torah about?," i.e. "What is da'as Hashem?"</p>
<p>18:00 How can the Torah assert that man is in the image of God if people kill each other?</p>
<p>20:00 Are there fundamentally unbridgeable differences between human beings?</p>
<p>22:45 The Torah doesn't reveal truths as much as it gives a vision of what can be</p>
<p>24:45 Torah as a radical document suggesting what can be</p>
<p>26:45 In order to understand the Torah, we have to view it within a historical lens as well
28:45 We can't tell people they don't have Torah</p>
<p>31:45 Not everyone could be Rabbi Yehudah HaLevi who lived in the past and the future</p>
<p>36:00 Why there developed a concept of the Redemption as something that will happen to us miraculously </p>
<p>40:30 In the past, there was no way to talk about Redemption without using miraculous terminology </p>
<p>43:00 Why people believe in being passive; the great danger of hastening the End before its time45:15 Whether the world is ready for something depends on whether we are ready for it</p>
<p>47:00 Those who have no understanding of Redemption should indeed do nothing about it</p>
<p>50:30 Summary</p>
<p>This lecture is a project of the Jacob Lights Foundation

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