S7, E18, The Guide of the Perplexed, the Closing Chapters, 02: The Birth of a Nation Under Divine Providence

<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmlCbMv0aq8&amp;t=45s" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">00:45</a> The turn and the tension in III:51, and its parallel in III:54, about whether the service of God involves turning away from this world or engaging with it<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmlCbMv0aq8&amp;t=255s" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">4:15</a> A new reason for all of the mitzvahs that runs counter to the reasons given earlier in the Guide<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmlCbMv0aq8&amp;t=975s" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">16:15</a> The contradiction in III:54: Is the true perfection of man intellectual or practical?<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmlCbMv0aq8&amp;t=1680s" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">28:00</a> Why does Rambam think we cannot be like Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov and Moshe?<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmlCbMv0aq8&amp;t=2430s" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">40:30</a> Only the founders of the nation can be engaged with this world while remaining purely objective and focused on Hashem <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmlCbMv0aq8&amp;t=3270s" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">54:30</a> The history of the Jewish Nation as the embodiment of Hashem's traits of Kindness, Justice and Righteousness, which are the hallmarks of Divine Providence<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmlCbMv0aq8&amp;t=3420s" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">57:00</a> The perfection of man as individual is knowledge; the perfection of man as a member of the Jewish Nation is engagement in lived Kindness, Justice and Righteousness<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmlCbMv0aq8&amp;t=3660s" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">1:01:00</a> "The unity of God in the world" – Kindness, Justice and Righteousness reflect God's unity in the dimension of the material world <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmlCbMv0aq8&amp;t=3900s" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">1:05:00</a> Kindness, Justice and Righteousness for the collective correspond to intelligence for the individual</p>