Saturday 22 August 2020

Rabbi Sacks considers why a sage might be greater than a prophet



A Sage is Greater than a Prophet (Shoftim 5780)
https://rabbisacks.org/shoftim-5780/

2:00  Invasion and consolidation
3:00  Maintenance, being caretaker, housework, paperwork
5:00  Scouts, linguists, ethnographers, anthropologists
6:00  Levite
8:00  Moses was a Constitutional Dictator.
9:00  A Caliph is a Constitutional Dictator.
10:00  Administrators
11:00  Fools and children
13:00  If the world is coming to an end ...
14:00  Housework, homework, paperwork
16:00  The attributes of a successful prophet
18:00  Kohanim
21:00  “Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”
23:00  Rebuke
24:00  Muhammad the Messenger of God delivers the Koran to gentiles, Process Servers, Postmen and recorded delivery
26:00  Remonstration and rebuke
27:00  Receipt acknowledged
30:00  Gentiles
36:00  Rabbi Sacks on gay marriage
37:00  Multiple Truth Hypothesis
38:00  Agnostic

39:00  Only married parents wanting to parent their legitimate offspring properly would wish to support the patriarchy. Those who declare themselves against the idea of producing the next generation within wedlock and parenting legitimate offspring properly should be declared subversives and potential sex offenders. quran.com/24/2

40:00  Building on previous generations

42:00  Secular Koranism and Church of Entropy

43:00  Stable society

44:00  Liberty is what we ought to have after all the necessary laws are in place.

45:00  We already have the solutions to all our problems, but our sin blinds us to them. 

46:00  People who don't care about the arguments

47:00  Christianity is idolatry and blasphemy.

49:00  The antisemitism of the New Testament

50:00  Free trade and Manchester Liberalism

51:00  Liberalism can be found in the Koran.

52:00  Dialogue

54:00  Valid and sound arguments

55:00  The apex of the pyramid

56:00  Blessing of the Kohanim



1:03:00  Circumambulating the Kabah


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