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Rav Lachem Shevet: A Compatiblist Theory of Free Will
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Literary readings of Chumash, discussions of Torah and Science, and occasional excursions into Torat Brisk. Daf Yomi Audio Resources. Wednesday, 29 July 2015. A Compatiblist Theory of Free Will. Left us without a Materialist theory of Free Will. For this post, we'll attempt to construct one in the Compatibilist school, acceptable to Jewish theology. So as we already mentioned. So how can we redeem this approach? We're going to need two concepts:. Heidegger's concept of Dasein. Now let's explain this seco...
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Rav Lachem Shevet: February 2015
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Literary readings of Chumash, discussions of Torah and Science, and occasional excursions into Torat Brisk. Daf Yomi Audio Resources. Sunday, 15 February 2015. Rabbi Sacks on The Righteous Mind. Well, judging by last week's TOI article. It seems that Rabbi Jonathan Sacks is also a fan of Jonathan Haidt's excellent book "The Righteous Mind". You must not mistreat or oppress the stranger in any way. Remember, you yourselves were once strangers. In the land of Egypt. (Ex. 22: 21). As Haidt says "Morality Bi...
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Rav Lachem Shevet: June 2015
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Literary readings of Chumash, discussions of Torah and Science, and occasional excursions into Torat Brisk. Daf Yomi Audio Resources. Sunday, 28 June 2015. On Sartre and the Rambam. I recently listened to a lecture by Professor Frank Furedi. On prominent Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre(1905-1980) and the relevance of his thought today. I enjoyed it so much that I went ahead and read “Existentialism is a Humanism”. 8220;In other words, there is no determinism—man is free, man is freedom.”. Hearing about t...
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Rav Lachem Shevet: How to Say Nothing in 500 Words on Rav Lichtenstein
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Literary readings of Chumash, discussions of Torah and Science, and occasional excursions into Torat Brisk. Daf Yomi Audio Resources. Tuesday, 28 April 2015. How to Say Nothing in 500 Words on Rav Lichtenstein. Rav Aharon giving shiur in the Gush. I could just link to all the past posts where I reference his teachings. But instead I'm going to try and take this in a new direction. How to Say Nothing in 500 Words. In light of this last one, here is a thing. Wonders how he allowed himself to get trapped in...
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Rav Lachem Shevet: October 2014
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Literary readings of Chumash, discussions of Torah and Science, and occasional excursions into Torat Brisk. Daf Yomi Audio Resources. Tuesday, 28 October 2014. Well, I think it's time I picked up מנחה טהורה. Rav Daniel Wolf's book on Seder Taharot. The Centrality of Man in Severity of Tumah. One interesting point Rav Wolf makes in the opening chapter is about the pattern in how Tuma is passed between objects, with a decreasing severity the further they get from Mankind:. A Lesson in Mindfulness? The laws...
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Rav Lachem Shevet: Kierkegaard and The Lonely Man
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Literary readings of Chumash, discussions of Torah and Science, and occasional excursions into Torat Brisk. Daf Yomi Audio Resources. Monday, 13 July 2015. Kierkegaard and The Lonely Man. So let’s talk about one of my favorite books, Rav Soloveichik’s “The Lonely Man of Faith”. What was it that I so adored about Lonely Man? In any case, I had heard the book compared to the work of Soren Kierkegaard, “The Father of Existentialism” several times. I’d thought about getting my hands on ...We live in interest...
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Rav Lachem Shevet: November 2014
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Literary readings of Chumash, discussions of Torah and Science, and occasional excursions into Torat Brisk. Daf Yomi Audio Resources. Tuesday, 25 November 2014. Definitions and the Passing-On of Tuma. The second shiur in Rav Daniel Wolf’s מנחה טהורה is on the classes of methods by which objects become tamei. The Rav offers 3 options:. The object is defined by the Torah as a source of tuma. The classic example of this are all the avot hatuma defined in the torah: a dead body, a sheretz met, etc. One of th...
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Rav Lachem Shevet: Towards a Materialistic Theory of Free Will
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Literary readings of Chumash, discussions of Torah and Science, and occasional excursions into Torat Brisk. Daf Yomi Audio Resources. Monday, 27 July 2015. Towards a Materialistic Theory of Free Will. As we discussed recently. The Problem of Free Will has been the subject of debate since at least the middle ages( and perhaps even during Greek Classicism. We mentioned the Greek and Judaeo-Christian conceptions of Man as being made-up of two parts. The Search for a Materialistic Solution. In recent years, ...