How to Unite with the Mind of God (According to Maimonides)

Join us for a wild ride through the mind of Maimonides into the mind of God. Exploring Maimonides theory of knowledge (epistemology). How one may activate their mind by uniting with the divine active intellect. Followed by Maimonides radical and brilliant re-reading of divine providence.

This episode isn't going to make much sense unless you've watched the previous one:    • Becoming an Angel in Maimonides’ Magical U...  

Full “Maimonides and Mysticism” Series:    • Maimonides' Mysticism  

1 Biography: Who was Maimonides? The Genius who Reshaped Judaism: His Life, Works and Legacy:    • The Genius who Reshaped Judaism: Moses Mai...  
2 Literature Review: Survey of Scholars on Rambam - The Many Maimonides, from 13th-21st Century:    • How Many Maimonides are there?  
3 Reception History: Maimonides and the Kabbalists: Rejection, Acceptance, Influence and Secret Conversions:    • Maimonides and the Kabbalists  
4 Clarifying Terms: Kabbalah, Mysticism and Rationalism: Maimonides the Rational Mystic?    • Maimonides the Rational Mystic?  
5 A Guide to the Guide: Introducing the Greatest Book of Jewish Philosophy Ever Written:    • The Greatest Book of Jewish Philosophy Eve...  
6 The Forgery: The Theology of Aristotle and Maimonides Negative Theology:    • The Forgery that Fooled the Philosophers  
7 Cosmology and Prophecy: Maimonides on Cosmic Spheres, Flow, Active Intellect, Prophecy and Angelification:    • Becoming an Angel in Maimonides’ Magical U...  
8 How to Unite with the Mind of God: Maimonides’ Epistemology (theory of knowledge) and Providence:    • How to Unite with the Mind of God (Accordi...  
9 Maimonides’ Perfect Death: Walkthru of Guide 3.51, Maimonides’ Parable of the Palace:    • The "Mystical Chapter" of the Guide for th...  
10 Maimonides’ Path to God: 3.51’s primary themes, language and its relationship to mysticism and kabbalah:    • Maimonides’ Path to God  
11 Light, Love and Silence: Maimonides’ Divine Illumination, Religious Langue and Negative Theology:    • Maimonides’ Mysticism of Light, Love and S...  
12 Maimonides, Agnostic or Mystic: Does Maimonides believe that one can reach God?:    • Was Maimonides a Skeptical Agnostic or a S...  
13 Maimonides’ Last Puzzle: The Riddle at the End of the Guide, Maimonides’ Turn to Ethics:    • The Riddle at the End of the Guide for the...  
14 Maimonides and the Lost Secrets of Israel: Maimonides’ true goal of the Guide:    • Maimonides and the Lost Secrets of Israel  
Bonus:
15 Maimonides’ Hasidic Afterlife: Chabad and Rambam. Maimonides’ reception in the Chabad Hasidic movement:    • Maimonides’ Hasidic Afterlife  
16 Maimonides’ Crisis of Faith: Discussion with David Fried out what is going on in Maimonides’ Guide:    • Maimonides’ Crisis of Faith  


00:00 Through the Mind of Maimonides into the mind of God
00:35 Flowing into Maimonides’ Epistemology
05:51 Threefold Unity of the Intellect, Knower, Knowing and Known
10:38 Minus Matter
13:55 Love as Knowing
17:01 Maimonides’ Predecessors
21:24 Man to God – Mysticism \ God to World – Pantheism
27:33 Maimonides’ Theory of Divine Providence

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