Shalom! This video is an effort to explain the basics of the (foreign language) one of the great sages of Jewish history ahead of the (foreign language) Babylonia lived in the 10th century. (Foreign language) was a writer, an Arabic which replaced aramak as the lingua of the Jewish people.
And really the first medieval Jewish philosopher, there was nine going struggle with for authority between the Babylonian and Jewish and one of the basic issues was the fixing of the Jewish calendar.
This most pronoun book was called the Beliefs of a, the book of beliefs and opinion (foreign language) the first philosophical systematic explanation of Judaism. He also translated the Bible in the Arabic and prepares the uniform prayer book for the Jewish living in the Arab world.
Now first of all his (foreign language) topic that he touches out in the fullest detail and provided the systematic structure and logical order and detail introduction for it, in terms of philosophy in this book (foreign language) I set out to find rational proof on the dagma the only unwritten law and its importance lies in the being the first medieval Jewish philosopher to reconcile the Bible and philosophy reason and revelation.
He identifies four basic sources of knowledge sense perception, self principles such as the improvement of telling the truth, inferential knowledge gained by syllogistic reasoning, and then, reliable tradition, providence to the truth of the reports of others. And, in Judaism it says reliable has special signifance and that refers to the transmission o the Bible and the all tradition of God revelation with the prophets.
He maintains the revelation as crucial in order to impart the truth to those who are incapable of rational investigation. He also sees a correspondence between reason and revelation in states that one cannot refute the other, very interesting. (Foreign language) maintains that one must reject the ability of any prophet as teaching or contradict reason.
He believes the world was created out of nothing and he has provided us four different proofs for creation in his thinking. After he provides his four proofs of creation he precedes to refute all the other cosmological theories that differ from his own.
Now, his basic theory of God refers to God as creator. He maintains God as the cause of all corporeal existence and therefore God cannot be corporeal for if he were there must be something beyond him which will be the cause of his existence.
Regarding the attributes emphasizes three essential qualities of God, life, power and wisdom, for saga and the creation of the world itself by God as actor freewill. God wanted o benefit his creatures by giving them the opportunity of serving him through the observance of the commandments, by which he believe people would find through happiness to the observance of the commandments.
In terms of medieval he investigated the rationality of them and divided them into two kinds of laws, medieval (foreign language) basis in reason and traditional ritual ceremonial laws (foreign language) such as dietary laws which he did not believe has a basis and reason out some other Rabii of coarse would provide rational for one of them needs vote, for example C Abraham Chills book. Meets from the rational but for saga writing in the 10 century there were some that had an irrational basis.
All rational laws he believe are subsumed under three rational principles, first reason demands that one think ones benefit therefore three symbol of fake God, second reason demands the wise person not for himself to be insulted therefore that should not be permitted to insulted, third, with reason demands that creatures should prohibit people from hurting one another.
In order for man to arrive with the knowledge with both kinds of laws revelation is necessary. Now, finally in terms of the nature of the body and soul, we believe the soul compose and verify materials three essential faculties appetite, spirit and reason.
But, the soul cannot act out of some therefore it needs the body as an instrument. He also has freedom of choice. He believes God knows the outcome of our deliberations but does no cause a person to act in a specific way.
Regarding the odyssey why the evil prosper seemingly in the right to suffer, he maintains the earlier rabbinic view that states the righteous to suffer and this world would be more than the world to come. Regarding the soul he argues that remains in a sort of limbo like state until it will be reunited with the body at a time with the Messiah.
It is a motion he clearly is one of the most dominant figures in development of Judaism that is literature. He is the most authoritated influence and number of Jewish followers at plado such as (foreign language) also a pioneer of literature, one of the first to write books in the modern sense of the world. That is a little introduction to the great medieval sage.
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