Jul 22 2024 59 mins 5
This lecture series is a project of the Jacob Lights Foundation and was generously sponsored by R' Yoel Werzberger.
Highlights:
1:00 Goodness is what is real, and evil is privation
3:20 The goodness of the universe is the foundational notion of the whole Torah
9:00 Are the masses of today similar to the masses in the past?
11:30 Existence is good as judged by all existents
14:45 Creation ex Nihilo and evil as privation
16:45 Non-existence is evil only relative to existence
28:30 Confronting evil is confronting the nothingness that preceded Creation, and induces fear of God due to its absurdity
33:00 Confronting evil is confronting the notion that perhaps nothing at all should exist; fear of God is the antidote to evil
38:00 When a person judges existence to be good, existence is judging itself; God does not "exist," and therefore He doesn't judge things to be good
46:00 The Torah talks about God as if he is part of the same system of existence as everything else
