From The Great Sources with Rabbi Shnayor Burton by R Shnayor Burton.
- Published: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:07:17 GMT
- Duration: 00:59:44
- Audio: https://anchor.fm/s/fb5467c/podcast/play/89547876/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2024-6-23%2Ff114c39c-42af-b17d-9784-5b5ae420fbf6.m4a
- Page: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shnayor-burton/episodes/S7--E6-The-Guide-of-the-Perplexed--The-Problem-of-Evil--02-Non-Existent-Evil-e2mb9l4
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1:00 Goodness is what is real, and evil is privation
3:20 The goodness of the universe is the foundational notion of the whole Torah
9:00 Are the masses of today similar to the masses in the past?
11:30 Existence is good as judged by all existents
14:45 Creation ex Nihilo and evil as privation
16:45 Non-existence is evil only relative to existence
28:30 Confronting evil is confronting the nothingness that preceded Creation, and induces fear of God due to its absurdity
33:00 Confronting evil is confronting the notion that perhaps nothing at all should exist; fear of God is the antidote to evil
38:00 When a person judges existence to be good, existence is judging itself; God does not "exist," and therefore He doesn't judge things to be good
46:00 The Torah talks about God as if he is part of the same system of existence as everything else