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

• Published: Tue, 03 Sep 2024 03:06:52 GMT
• Duration: 00:54:59
• Audio: https://anchor.fm/s/fb5467c/podcast/play/91219410/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2024-8-3%2F5ecccdb1-1148-e316-bd2a-5dfacab36c55.mp3
• Page: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shnayor-burton/episodes/S8--E2-Jerusalem-and-Athens-God-Centered-vs--Human-Centered-Governance--02-e2nua0i
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Highlights:

2:15 What is achieved by humans thinking in non-human terms? 4:15 Humans are the most important aspect of reality; viewing the world from God's perspective involves viewing humanity accurately 8:30 The actions are God can be understood only by understanding humans 12:00 God is good only if humans are good 16:00 By bringing things back to God's perspective, we simultaneously value the way things are and remain open to progress 18:00 The tension between progressivism and conservativism 22:00 God's will as the ultimate constant that allows for infinite progress 30:45 The Golden Mean as the way of God 33:10 Finding law within human behavior brings human behavior back to God 35:45 A person cannot know the ways of God without knowing himself 37:25 The prophets call God righteous and thereby make Him righteous, since humans, His ultimate creation, will be inspired to be righteous, making Him righteous 40:00 The difference between the philosophers and the prophets about whether human perfection involves intellectual perfection or moral perfection 47:20 What makes the Torah divine: the connection between ordering society and thinking about God