
Guide For the Perplexed - Lecture 113: Part 3 Chapter 26
Rambam describes that just as every part of creation has a purpose and is important, so to all the Mitzvot (God's commandments) each has a logical and useful purpose.


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Rambam describes that just as every part of creation has a purpose and is important, so to all the Mitzvot (God's commandments) each has a logical and useful purpose.

Rambam describes the meaning of the goodness of God and His creation. Everything He created is for a meaningful purpose, as an end in itself. Nothing is just a whim or fancy.

We complete Rambam's discussion of the meaning of "tests" with our continued discussion of the meaning of the story of the binding of Isaac. We also read excerpts from Rambam's "Letter on Apostasy" and the limits of what

Rambam explains what the Torah means when it says that God is "testing" us. We begin to explain the extremely difficult chapter of the Akeidat Yizchak (The Binding of Isaac) according to Maimonidean thought.

Rambam describes how knowledge of God's truth leads to love, and thru love one achieves true happiness no matter what he or she must endure.

Rambam begins his explanation of the Book of Job with his understanding of the debate between Job (Iyov) and the first three friends Eliphaz, Bildad and Tzofar.

Rambam describes the nature of the Satan, what the concept means in the context of the story of Job and in general.

Rambam begins his analysis of the Book of Job and the lessons to learn regarding God's providence.

Rambam describes in chapter 20 the difference between God's "knowledge" and ours makes it impossible to ask questions about God's knowledge of future events and how that might conflict with free choice. In 21 he further

In 19, Rambam describes why people conclude that God doesn't know or care what we do; because we have the arrogant idea that when things don't conform to the way we think they should be, we assume that they are not right

Rambam describes in Chapter 18 how God's providence is commensurate with a person's intellect and how one chooses to live. Chapter 19 begins with the reason so many people conclude that God doesn't know or care what happ

Rambam describes his opinion regarding God's providence. Providence is for humans only as it works through our intellect and only humans have intellect.

Rambam describes the fourth and fifth possible understandings of how God's providence works, the fifth one being the simple meaning of the Torah. He reviews the flaws of all the possibilities, and leads us toward his own

Rambam describes various opinions regarding God's providence. In this lecture we cover the first three approaches.

Rambam begins his discussion of the difficult question of theodicy by describing what led many philosophers to conclude that God doesn't know what is happening in His universe.

In chapter 14, Rambam describes why it is unreasonable to think that God created the world for the sake of human beings, as we are but a tiny speck within the vast universe. He also explains that the sages were only comp

Rambam discusses the idea that every creation was created for its' own significance, not for the purpose of serving something else. All of creation, every creature, every being, every moment, is significant for itself. T

In 12b Rambam describes how the quest for unnecessary luxuries is often the cause of our suffering the loss of even necessities. In 13b we learn of the futility in searching for the ultimate purpose of our existence. Ram

Rambam describes how most evil in the world does not come from God but from our own selfishness.

Rambam describes how evil is the absence of good, and that everything God does is good.
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