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From **The Great Sources with Rabbi Shnayor Burton** by R Shnayor Burton.
- **Published:** Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:26:24 GMT
- **Duration:** 01:12:26
- **Audio:** https://anchor.fm/s/fb5467c/podcast/play/123410846/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-28%2Fa7fdf39e-cb26-7d3d-f049-64769b3e22e2.mp3
- **Page:** https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shnayor-burton/episodes/S7--E18--The-Guide-of-the-Perplexed--the-Closing-Chapters--02-The-Birth-of-a-Nation-Under-Divine-Providence-e3mkmuu
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00:45 The turn and the tension in III:51, and its parallel in III:54, about whether the service of God involves turning away from this world or engaging with it4:15 A new reason for all of the mitzvahs that runs counter to the reasons given earlier in the Guide16:15 The contradiction in III:54: Is the true perfection of man intellectual or practical?28:00 Why does Rambam think we cannot be like Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov and Moshe?40:30 Only the founders of the nation can be engaged with this world while remaining purely objective and focused on Hashem 54:30 The history of the Jewish Nation as the embodiment of Hashem's traits of Kindness, Justice and Righteousness, which are the hallmarks of Divine Providence57:00 The perfection of man as individual is knowledge; the perfection of man as a member of the Jewish Nation is engagement in lived Kindness, Justice and Righteousness1:01:00 "The unity of God in the world" – Kindness, Justice and Righteousness reflect God's unity in the dimension of the material world 1:05:00 Kindness, Justice and Righteousness for the collective correspond to intelligence for the individual
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