S7, E3, The Guide of the Perplexed, Creation, 03: Is Creation ex Nihilo Known via Philosophy or Prophecy?

This shiur was generously sponsored by Mr. Ari Schwartz. This series is a project of the Jacob Lights Foundation. 2:00 Passages in the Guide that indicate that Creation ex Nihilo is known through revelatory prophecy

8:15 How Abraham reached knowledge of God through contemplating the heavens

19:30 Was Abraham an Aristotelian philosopher?

25:00 Prophecy revealed the truth that Creation ex Nihilo is the proper belief, not that Creation ex Nihilo is a scientific, cosmological fact

44:45 Since we believe that Abraham and Moshe had divine revelation, their personal philosophical speculations don't concern us

48:30 Maimonides' story about how Abraham discovered God is a deliberate anachronism

52:30 The project of the Guide of the Perplexed and how the perplexity shifts dramatically when it comes to Creation