S10, E9 In Pursuit of Knowing Hashem: Why We Need the Torah and Why Freedom Is Impossible

<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHzuh5YlAxw">0:00</a> What is Judaism all about?<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHzuh5YlAxw&t=120s">2:00</a> Did the forefathers know the Name of Hashem or not?<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHzuh5YlAxw&t=240s">4:00</a> Exodus initiated two seemingly different things: knowledge of Hashem and freedom from bondage<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHzuh5YlAxw&t=355s">5:55</a> Where does the Torah fit into Exodus?<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHzuh5YlAxw&t=540s">9:00</a> &quot;Nobody is free but for he who studies Torah&quot; – how does the Torah make a person free?<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHzuh5YlAxw&t=795s">13:15</a> The prophets&#39; opposition to sacrifices, in contradiction to the Torah<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHzuh5YlAxw&t=1125s">18:45</a> Midrash is the insistence to read verses closely and exactly<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHzuh5YlAxw&t=1290s">21:30</a> The focus of the prophets on da&#39;as Hashem<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHzuh5YlAxw&t=1545s">25:45</a> The response to &quot;I am Hashem&quot; is da&#39;as Hashem<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHzuh5YlAxw&t=1770s">29:30</a> Summary of the points made thus far<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHzuh5YlAxw&t=1920s">32:00</a> Moshe asked to know Hashem, and his request was denied<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHzuh5YlAxw&t=2190s">36:30</a> The contradiction between the Torah and the Prophets about whether Hashem can be seen<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHzuh5YlAxw&t=2310s">38:30</a> Two meanings of &quot;seeing&quot; and two meanings of &quot;knowing&quot;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHzuh5YlAxw&t=2580s">43:00</a> A creature of super-human intelligence once visited earth and revealed that the totality of human knowledge is folly<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHzuh5YlAxw&t=2775s">46:15</a> It&#39;s easy to see Hashem – but then you die<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHzuh5YlAxw&t=2880s">48:00</a> Why sacrifices and da&#39;as Hashem are mutually exclusive<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHzuh5YlAxw&t=3030s">50:30</a> Why suicide is the root problem of philosophy<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHzuh5YlAxw&t=3720s">1:02:00</a> Law is for those who don&#39;t have da&#39;as Hashem<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHzuh5YlAxw&t=4380s">1:13:00</a> Moshe thought that his mission was one