Guide For the Perplexed - Lecture 103: Part 3 Chapters 18 and 19a

Guide For the Perplexed - Lecture 103: Part 3 Chapters 18 and 19a

Rambam describes in Chapter 18 how God's providence is commensurate with a person's intellect and how one chooses to live. Chapter 19 begins with the reason so many people conclude that God doesn't know or care what happens in this world.

Guide For the Perplexed - Lecture 102: Part 3 Chapter 17c

Rambam describes his opinion regarding God's providence. Providence is for humans only as it works through our intellect and only humans have intellect.

Guide For the Perplexed - Lecture 101: Part 3 Chapter 17b

Rambam describes the fourth and fifth possible understandings of how God's providence works, the fifth one being the simple meaning of the Torah. He reviews the flaws of all the possibilities, and leads us toward his own understanding of God's providence, which he will describe next.

Guide For the Perplexed - Lecture 100: Part 3 Chapter 17a

Rambam describes various opinions regarding God's providence. In this lecture we cover the first three approaches.

Guide For the Perplexed - Lecture 99: Part 3 Chapter 16

Rambam begins his discussion of the difficult question of theodicy by describing what led many philosophers to conclude that God doesn't know what is happening in His universe.