The Greatest Book of Jewish Philosophy Ever Written

Introducing the greatest work of Jewish philosophy ever written. Maimonide’ Guide to the Perplexed. Moving masterfully through a thousand years of Greek, Jewish and Muslim philosophy, this text grapples profoundly with the problem of evil, the nature of reality and the meaning of life. Culminating with an astonishing re-reading of the Bible, which radically redefines God, religion and humanity in the process.

Banned and burned by religious authorities, it continues to stir controversy hundreds of years later, perplexing the guided, and guiding the perplexed… Join us as we explore Moses Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed, the Rambam’s Moreh Nevuchim.

Full “Maimonides and Mysticism” Series:    • Maimonides' Mysticism  

1 Biography: Who was Maimonides?:    • The Genius who Reshaped Judaism: Mose...  
2 Literature Review: Survey of Scholars on Rambam:    • How Many Maimonides are there?  
3 Reception History: Maimonides and the Kabbalists:    • Maimonides and the Kabbalists  
4 Clarifying Terms: Kabbalah, Mysticism and Rationalism:    • Maimonides the Rational Mystic?  
5 A Guide to the Guide:    • The Greatest Book of Jewish Philosoph...  
6 The Forgery: The Theology of Aristotle and Maimonides Negative Theology:    • The Forgery that Fooled the Philosophers  
7 Maimonides' Cosmology and Prophecy:    • Becoming an Angel in Maimonides’ Magi...  
8 How to Unite with the Mind of God: Maimonides’ Epistemology and Providence:    • How to Unite with the Mind of God (Ac...  
9 Maimonides’ Perfect Death: Walkthru of Guide 3.51:    • The "Mystical Chapter" of the Guide f...  
10 Maimonides’ Path to God: Analysis of 3.51:    • Maimonides’ Path to God  
11 Light, Love and Silence: Maimonides’ Divine Illumination, Religious Langue and Negative Theology:    • Maimonides’ Mysticism of Light, Love ...  
12 Maimonides, Agnostic or Mystic:    • Was Maimonides a Skeptical Agnostic o...  
13 Maimonides’ Last Puzzle: The Riddle at the End of the Guide:    • The Riddle at the End of the Guide fo...  
14 Maimonides and the Lost Secrets of Israel:    • Maimonides and the Lost Secrets of Is...  
Bonus:
15 Maimonides’ Hasidic Afterlife: Chabad and Rambam:    • Maimonides’ Hasidic Afterlife  
16 Maimonides’ Crisis of Faith: Discussion with David Fried:    • Maimonides’ Crisis of Faith  


00:00 A Guide to the Guide
01:39 Maimonides Series Recap
02:22 Intro, Influence, Controversy
05:22 Overview of the Guide
09:00 Maimonides’ Sources
12:35 Maimonides’ Puzzle
14:53 The Goal of the Guide


Sources and Further Reading
• Elliot Wolfson, “Beneath the Wings of the Great Eagle: Maimonides and Thirteenth-Century Kabbalah,” in Moses Maimonides, 2004, p. 213.
• Joel Kraemer, “Maimonides and the Spanish Aristotelian School,” in Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain, 1999.
• Joel Kraemer, Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds, New York: Doubleday, 2008.
• Joel Kraemer, Moses Maimonides: An Intellectual Portrait, in The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides, Kenneth Seeskin (ed.), 2005, pp. 40-45.
• Joseph Citron, Maimonides and Mysticism, (unpublished), 2005.
• Julius Guttmann, “Introduction” in Maimonides, The Guide of The Perplexed, An Abridged Edition, East and West Library New York, 1947.
• Leo Strauss, "How To Begin To Study The Guide," in The Guide of the Perplexed, tr. Pines, pp. xiii-xiv.
• Mark Daniels, “The Perplexing Nature of the Guide for the Perplexed” in Philosophy Now 50:20-22, 2005.
• Menachem Kellner, "Maimonides' Disputed Legacy," in Traditions of Maimonideanism, ed. Carlos Fraenkel (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 245-76.
• Moses Maimonides, “Introduction” in The Guide of the Perplexed, translated by Shlomo Pines, 1963.
• Moshe Idel, “Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed and the Kabbalah” in Jewish History 18: 197-226, 2004.
• Sarah Stroumsa, Maimonides in His World, Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker, 2009.
• Shlomo Pines, “Translator's Introduction: The Philosophical Sources of The Guide of the Perplexed.” The Guide of the Perplexed, 1963.

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